AFAPC Year-End Family Picnic, Avery Park, June 9, 2009 View more pictures HERE...

AFAPC is an organization of faculty committed to making OSU a more inclusive environment, where people of color can better thrive and succeed personally and professionally. Established in the summer of 1999 as a formal coalition and currently over 60 members strong, AFAPC is led by:

Dwaine Plaza, Co-Chair		Department of Sociology
Patti Sakurai, Co-Chair		Department of Ethnic Studies

Recent concerns of AFAPC include:

• Campus Promotion and Tenure Process Review (with President's Commission on the Status of Women and the Faculty Senate Promotion and Tenure Committee)
• Recruitment and retention of faculty of color
• Tracking faculty of color who leave OSU and why
• Mentoring of young faculty and staff of color
• Salary parity for faculty and staff of color
• Accountability of deans, directors, and department chairs to the commitment and intent of the institutional and unit Diversity Action Plans
• Better recognition/acceptance of service for promotion & tenure
• The "other" minority: Issues for Muslim and Arab faculty & students
• Support and longevity of campus cultural centers
• Supporting the efforts of students as they seek to adjust to and improve the racial climate at OSU
• Critical Points for Diversity in the OSU Strategic Plan
• Coordinated and bi-directional activities and efforts with the President's Board of Visitors for Minority Affairs