2008 Woodie Awards
Students attend open forum for provost candidate
Danny Mathis
Issue date: 2/13/06 Section: News
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McCarthy is one of up to five candidates for provost. Others vying for the position will have similar forum style interviews.
Four students attended the event, including Student Government Association President Marcus Leach.
Leach was the first to begin questioning, and after the introductions and the small talk were over, the pressing questions followed.
He voiced the opinion of student governments from around Missouri, including UMKC, that students need to have a more active role in faculty hiring committees.
"I've had students on committees. I require that part of the search process [for chair searches] involves candidate meetings with students," said McCarthy. "I think it's important that you get feedback from students."
Leach pressed further with his next question. He said some of the salaried staff working on campus make so little that they qualify for welfare.
"We don't think that's right," said Leach.
McCarthy responded in favor of employee/employer relations.
"There's a lot of different issues involved in salaries at all levels, but I think that being an advocate for your employees in a lot of different ways is an important part in any employer's role," McCarthy said.
Joanna Farmer, a graduate student in the School of Education, expressed very unfavorable opinions of this University, and her questions revolved around her displeasure.
"I think UMKC needs to make a very serious commitment to the community and not just say, and also not be one of those communities that just takes over the community's interest," Farmer said.
In her reply, McCarthy stressed her criminology emphasis in college and the time she spent pursuing strategies for change, which she feels could lend themselves to these issues.
Farmer then quoted an estimate that UMKC has a 10 percent graduation rate for its minority students. McCarthy had been quoted a different estimate.
