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Audit of UC Faculty Hiring Practices in Progress
California State Senator Jackie Speier has asked for an audit in response to the
declining number of women faculty being hired by UC. Her request is for a
careful audit of hiring practices for ladder-rank faculty throughout the entire
University of California system which will give the legislature important
information and will encourage the University to come into compliance with both
federal and state law prohibiting sex discrimination in employment.
The request also specifies particulars of the audit: the gender of those in the
pool from which UC can hire, the gender of those in the applicant pool, how
searches are made, the gender ratio of the short list of potential hires, the
process of making and accepting offers, the number of final hires by gender, and
finally, the salaries of hires by gender.
On August 24th, Senator Speier´s office announced that the audit request
was approved by the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. The state auditor lists
it as 2000-131 UC Faculty Hiring Practices. The report will be available
as a
.pdf file from the California Bureau of State Audits reports web site:
http://www.bsa.ca.gov/bsa/since93.html. It is anticipated that the audit
will be done by February 2001. Senator Speier described UC´s response as
supportive of the audit and noted that they acknowledged that a problem
exists.
This encouraging project may lead to some real changes!
Addendum
May 2001 -- State audit of UC hiring finished!!
California State Auditor/Bureau of State Audits Summary of Report Number
2000-131 - May 2001: University of California: Some Campuses and Academic
Departments Need
to Take Additional Steps to Resolve Gender Disparities Among Professors is
finished.
The summary of report may be viewed at:
http://www.bsa.ca.gov/bsa/.
You can see the full report at:
http://www.bsa.ca.gov/bsa/pdfs/2000131.pdf.
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