“First, I would like to apologize for my mistake at the staff luncheon.”
Those were President James Ramsey’s first public words as he addressed members of the faculty senate today. The senate meets monthly as part of the university’s shared governance structure.
Ramsey told the senators that he and his staff have accepted cultural sensitivity training, and are making strides to fix his blunder.
When asked about his plan of remediation, Ramsey said he will approach it according to recommendations passed by the Commission for Diversity and Racial Equality. “I’m asking [Neville] Pinto to take those recommendations, bring other groups on campus together to look at them, and go beyond that with what other things we as a campus should do,” Ramsey said.