2008 Woodie Awards
Equity report scrutinized
Women's forum asks for re-do of salary study
Chris Ankney
Issue date: 3/24/08 Section: News
Haggett said she is working to meet that goal.
"From what I can tell at this time, we will be adding women to the full professorate from our tenure and promotion lists," she said.
Haggett said she had less than a $100,000 pool of money in her office to help with diversity hires and told the committee that she would work to make sure that pool stays available in the upcoming budget planning cycle.
"I will make sure that those resources are still there," she said. "And I will work to increase those funds. I want to make a public statement and say that I have, and I know the president has, a commitment to equality."
Jamie Barlowe, a member of the forum and interim chairwoman of the women's studies department, said the group would like Haggett to commission a new study, performed by an outside agency.
"An outside contractor would be able to do the kind of contextual analysis we were asking for the first time," Barlowe said, adding that studies performed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University and the University of Michigan could serve as models.
Haggett didn't commit to contracting out a new study that would mirror those done at other institutions, but she agreed that such a study would be more acceptable than the one recently completed "because any internal study will always be met with criticism," she said.
Even though Haggett didn't commit to commissioning an outside study, Charlene Gilbert, convener of the Women's Leadership Forum and director of the Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women, said she thought the meeting was helpful and productive.
"It's clear that the provost recognizes that there are challenges and it's clear that there is some commitment from her to start addressing these issues," she said. "The problems that we have were not created in a day. These are long-term systemic and structural problems that are going to require long-term systemic and structural solutions."
"From what I can tell at this time, we will be adding women to the full professorate from our tenure and promotion lists," she said.
Haggett said she had less than a $100,000 pool of money in her office to help with diversity hires and told the committee that she would work to make sure that pool stays available in the upcoming budget planning cycle.
"I will make sure that those resources are still there," she said. "And I will work to increase those funds. I want to make a public statement and say that I have, and I know the president has, a commitment to equality."
Jamie Barlowe, a member of the forum and interim chairwoman of the women's studies department, said the group would like Haggett to commission a new study, performed by an outside agency.
"An outside contractor would be able to do the kind of contextual analysis we were asking for the first time," Barlowe said, adding that studies performed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University and the University of Michigan could serve as models.
Haggett didn't commit to contracting out a new study that would mirror those done at other institutions, but she agreed that such a study would be more acceptable than the one recently completed "because any internal study will always be met with criticism," she said.
Even though Haggett didn't commit to commissioning an outside study, Charlene Gilbert, convener of the Women's Leadership Forum and director of the Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women, said she thought the meeting was helpful and productive.
"It's clear that the provost recognizes that there are challenges and it's clear that there is some commitment from her to start addressing these issues," she said. "The problems that we have were not created in a day. These are long-term systemic and structural problems that are going to require long-term systemic and structural solutions."
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