Report says Ivy League universities are failing in the mission of promoting social equality 


The Feminist Daily News Wire reported that "women and minorities at Ivy League schools have made little progress breaking into the tenure track faculty ranks, and are instead becoming a larger part of the growing group of highly qualified but non tenure track faculty and staff," according to a new study by the Graduate Employees and Students Organization at Yale University. 

The study, entitled "The (Un)Changing Face of the Ivy League", shows that "workforces at Ivy League universities are starkly stratified by race and gender," that "the proportion of black and Hispanic faculty has remained low," that "women and people of color are less likely to get hired into the higher-ranking, more secure academic positions," that "women faculty, when non-ladder positions are included, make only 77% of their male colleagues' salaries," and that "Ivy League schools admit a smaller portion of underrepresented minority students than the national average." The study says that Ivy League universities "have fundamentally failed in one of their primary missions as institutions of higher education: the promotion of social equality."

"It is likely that the sex and race discrimination will continue as long as the hiring and tenure processes remain opaque, secretive and idiosyncratic among and even within universities," said Sue Klein, Ed.D, education equity director of the Feminist Majority Foundation.

A copy of the GESO study can be obtained from the GESO website: "The (Un)Changing Face of the Ivy League" [PDF] 

Posted: Sunday - March 13, 2005 at 02:50 PM          

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