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VOLUME 17, NUMBER 16
OCTOBER 30, 1970
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Affirmative
Action Plan
Progressing
The Affirmative Action Plan at Duke
University guarantees equal employment
opportunities and is aimed at upgrading
as many employes as possible throughout
the University.
The plan, which supplements Duke's
own Equal Employment Opportunity
(EEO) policy, provides equal
employment opportunity without regard
to race, color, creed, sex, age or national
origin.
Duke's plan was initiated earlier this
year in accordance with federal actions to
extend the affirmative action provision of
the 1964 Civil Rights Act to educational
institutions.
Several approaches have been taken to
implement the plan. These include
dissemination of information, supervisory
training, and upgrading employe skills,
Edward K. Bennett, assistant director of
personnel, said.
Dissemination of information
concerning the plan was one of the initial
steps. Officials throughout the University
have been assigned specific
responsibilities for dissemination of EEO
efforts. Information on Duke's
"affirmative actions" efforts has also
been given to high schools, colleges,
employment agencies and libraries.
A second approach is to offer human
relations training to supervisory
personnel. "We try to create an attitude
of equal opportunity at management
meetings," Mr. Bennett explained. 'To
keep supervisors human relations
conscious, emphasis is placed on the
Golden Rule."
A third EEO effort is geared to
employes themselves. Since the skilled
members of minority groups are highly
recruited, Duke has started a series of
training programs to prepare employes
(continued on page four)
DCKE
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aPWRlSG DVKB MEDICAL CE.VTER
NEW VIEW IN THE LOBBY — These posters, created by the Public Relations
Office, were recently put up in the main lobby to let our employes and visitors know a
bit about Duke's involvement in the community and throughout North Carolina.
(photo by Thad Sparks)
Dr. An/yan Chairman of AAMC
chairman oif the Department of Medicine,
will be the 13th recipient of the award.
Dr. Stead is the father of the
physician's assistant idea, which was
successfully pioneered at Duke and has
been adopted in various forms in many
areas of the country.
The concept of physicians' assistants
also will be discussed at the AAMC
meeting.
During one of the sessions. Dr. E.
Croft Long, associate director of
undergraduate medical education at
Duke, will speak on "Physician Assistant
Programs in Developing Countries." His
talk will be at the Conference on
International Medical Education, one of
the sub-groups meeting as part of the
AAMC conference.
Dr. Jane Elchlepp, director of
analytical studies at the Duke Medical
Center and an assistant to Dr. Aniyan for
planning, and Dr. Robert L. Thompson,
associate director, will participate in
discussions of "Management Information
Systems."
In addition. Dr. Thompson has been
asked to discuss his project on automated
medical student records before a program
on longitudinal research in medical
education.
Dr. Elchlepp also is scheduled to
Stead Gets Award
Dr. William G. Aniyan, vice president
for health affairs, will take over the
chairmanship of the Association of
American Medical Colleges this weekend
during the organization's annual meeting
in Los Angeles.
The office of chairman is the highest
elective office of the AAMC, which is the
body primarily resp>Gnsible for overseeing
administrative and educational
developments in the country's medical
schools and teaching hospitals.
Dr. Eugene Stead also has been
singled out for one of the AAMC's
highest awards. He will receive the
Abraham Flexner Award for
Distinguished Service to Medical
Education at the annual banquet
tomorrow night.
The Flexner award is named for the
man, who, in 1910, wrote for the
Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching what has come
to be known as the Flexner Report. The
report was a landmark contribution to
the campaign to improve medical
education. It also focused the attention
of philanthropists on the need to support
university medicine.
Dr. Stead, Florence McAlister
Professor of Medicine and former