The State - News from May 29, 1988

Stanford University reflects a “passive diversity” in which people work and attend class together but remain separate, said a report prepared by a 21-member committee appointed last fall by university President Donald Kennedy and Provost James Rosse. The report said the majority of students “are unprepared to deal effectively with people of different ethnic and racial backgrounds.” It also reported the school’s record on hiring minority faculty has increased minority faculty by only a small proportion over the last 20 years. United Stanford Workers, which represents 1,300 technical, maintenance and service employees, said it may pursue a class-action lawsuit claiming discrimination against workers on the basis of race, sex and age. And a graduate students’ organization has urged Kennedy to provide special help for minority graduate students.