Minority-Women Draws W~:zA m Blacks
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By Loretta Maaago
Pori Staff Writer
Through the Minority-Women Bu
siness Enterprise plan the City and
the businesses which affiliate them
selves with the program have set out
to increase the amount of business
each establishment does with the
other. This “good faith" effort on
which the M-WBE plan runs was
wholly adopted by the City Council.
Having been in effect well over a
year, the success of the M-WBE plan
brought out mixed responses when
members of the city council and
participants in the program were
asked bow they felt about its first
year of operation. Responses were
solicited from city council men Ron
keeper and Charlie Dannelly and
businessmen Fred Stewart and Bob
by Lowery.
“From my standpoint, I'm really
not satisfied with the way the
program has operated. It really
hasn’t been successful. Because of
this I have asked City Council to
seek enabling legislation to imple
ment the kind of program that I
think would be bettor,'' began Lee
per. Especially concerned with the
- state laws that knock minority-wo
men businesspersons out of the
ballpark for contracts, Leeper said
that the program should be set up
more in line with federal laws. “On
the federal level it is not necessary
that contracts go to die lowest
bidder. But other regulations of
general business laws would have to
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. .Some progress made
be met. For example, the city would
initiate contact with minority or
women businesses. Bat this does not
mean that these businesses do not
have to be competitive. City Council
met with state legislature to discuss
this proposal,” reminded Leeper.
Not as completely disheartened
about the propram Is city countil
man Charlie Dannelly “Some
progress was made, but not as much
that could have been made or should
have been made,” stated Dannelly.
Aa far as Dannelly is concerned
there are too many ways a prime
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contractor does not necessarily have
to invite a minority or women
business in on a bid.
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"I think the program needs some- >
thing in there to ensure, a bonafide
way to include minority or women
businesses." Although Dannelly
was leery of implementing a quota
he did say that if the right kind of
things were placed in new legisla
tion and they were enforced, then
that would assure comfortable and
adequate participation.
Fred Stewart of Stewart Office
Suppliers had nothing but praise for
Ron Leeper '•£
. Not satisfied
toe program. “I think the program
is great. The Minority purchasing
council and the bond program are
two parts of the plan that are both
needed. I fed that any program that
sets out to hdp minorities is great.”
Contrasting with Stewart’s opi
nions, Bobby Lowery of Better
Cleaning Janitorial Service, Inc. and
Better Cleaning Maintenance Sup
ply, Inc. Interjected that the pro
gram could stand some improve
ment.
“I’m disappointed in the amount
of dollars the city spent with mino
rity businesses, particularly in pur
“Good Black Facuity” Hard To Come By
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comparatively, E*. Green admit*,
“We have to nurture and grow
people who are interested in educa
tion on a long term basis.”
“I believe the heart of any institu
tion is great faculty,” emphasises
Albright. Yet, are Ph D s absolute
necessities of a good instructor?
Albright answers, “It is not abso
lute. You must also take into
account the individual’s commit
ment to research, and commitment
have mastered!* and they
are preferred.
“Instructors all must return to
school to keep pace with the current
knowledge ekpkwion. Without re
fresher courses their information
will soon be out of date. I rand
somewhere that the future portdmta
that 90 percent of the information
we will be using has not even
been discovered yet. That is an
awesome phenomenon. And if we
can’t keep up we can’t be effective.”
“Doctorates are not necessary id
every field,’’ contends Green.
“There is no need for them in such
departments as drama, art and
Creative Writing. Though docto
rates are preferred in other arena.
Yet we have to look at each indivi
dual case; a person’s competencies,
experiences and certification.
Though we must always comply
with college certification stand
ards.”'
The lack of good black faculty is a
crucial problem now but. what is
more Important, future forecasts do
not predict any alleviation. The
National Advisory Committee on
Black Higher Education reports that
there continues to be a decline in the
number of Blacks enrolled in doc
toral programs. Net only are Blacks
. underrepresented in all fields of
doctoral level study, they are even
more underrepresented in the high
growth areas of the physical sci
ences and engineering.
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“We don’t have an equitable dis
tribution of black doctors in engi
neering, computer science, archi
tecture, and the sciences,” agrees
Dr. Albright. “My goal is to
encourage more students to enter
graduate and professional schools to
acquire PhJDs.”
“The educational system needs to
take a look at itself, at its rewank.
There needs to be a renewed empha
sis on producing teachers,’’ Informs
Dr. Green. “I don’t see any solution
to the problem in the forseeabie
future,” he continues. “Not until the
reestablishment and elevation of the
status of teaching.”
Yet, Green suggests, that a possi
bility remains that black colleges
will become more adept at securing
and maintaining qualified black fa
culty. “As we become more equal
in .our ability to access state funds
then we will be able to compete. I
would like to see more dedicated
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black teachers in the sciences.
However, it will always remain their
decision where they want to work.”
Since he has taken steps to combat
this problem now, Albright inti
mates that black colleges cannot
afford to wait oo this matter. As to
why other black colleges may not be
instituting preventive actions at this
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time, Albright divulges, “Perhaps it
is that those University communi
ties have not come together with
conviction to address this problem.
But they have to dec^Je over the next
few years. With college costs rising
each year students will not come to
institutions which lack excellent
faculty.”
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“We Bend Over Backwardi
chasing," remarked Lowery.
"From a “good faith" effort, I think
a lot more improvement needs to be
made.” .
Lowery feds that the contractors
involved in M-WBE plan may have
done better than the purchasing end
because of the established ways of
determining results.
“It seems to me that there has to
be a commitment on the City’s part
in purchasing. Perhaps if there
were minorities doing the purcha
sing, then that would help. Another
idea Is to build some incentives with1
the people in the purchasing depart
ment,” suggested Lowery. The
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incentives that Lowery recommen
ded included tyii« the commitment
of including minority nod women
businesses in purchasing in with
evaluations and promotiorw.
No doubt the road has been rocky
that the M-WBE plan has traveled.
From the remarks of these indivi
duals it is dear that while some
progress has been made, there is
still a great deal of work to do.
Next week George Wallace, coor
dinator of the M-WBE plan will give
his views on the success of the
program, the accomplishments of
the last year and the future of the
plan
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