“There’s a great difference between a search which is made for the best candidate and one which is made with a quota in mind,” Mansfield said. Mansfield '53 questioned whether the University was employing “quotas” for women and minorities. While Zipser dedicated less time to hiring trends among minority faculty, she reported that while there has been an increase in the number of Asian faculty members, hiring of underrepresented minorities has plateaued.Īfter Zipser’s presentation, government professor Harvey C. "Women feel that they are doing more committee service than men because we are constantly asking women to serve on committees,” she said. Zipser also detailed struggles women may face in the academic environment, including a lack of mentoring on work-life balance and more pressure to serve on administrative committees. “We need to remain incredibly vigilant here,” she said. But last academic year, 38 percent of external ladder faculty offers went to women. This academic year, 52 percent of incoming ladder faculty were women, according to Zipser’s report. While the proportion of women in the Faculty has increased in recent years, the hiring of racial minorities has largely plateaued, she said. According to Zipser, 29 percent of the Faculty are women and 21 percent are racial minorities. Zipser’s presentation, postponed for several meetings due to heated debate over Lewis’s motion, outlined recent Faculty trends in hiring and promotion. No Faculty members objected to the withdrawal of both motions, ending the latest chapter in Lewis’s months-long campaign against the sanctions. Though Lewis withdrew his motion in late January, the motion-and a Faculty Council-backed counter-motion to indefinitely postpone it-were technically still on the table for discussion at the meeting.
Lewis ’68’s motion against the College’s sanctions on unrecognized single gender social organizations. The Faculty also approved the withdrawal of former Dean of the College Harry R. While the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has neared hiring an equal share of male and female ladder faculty members, the diversity of the body remains “concerning,” Dean of Faculty Affairs and Planning Nina Zipser said at the Faculty’s monthly meeting Tuesday.
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