Some UNLV faculty women say campus is stuck in 'Mad Men' days

Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2013-12-22 23:50

Article here. Excerpt:

'Women and minorities have been overlooked and underpromoted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, according to a letter written by eight faculty members who call for the return of former UNLV president Carol Harter as acting president because of her willingness to address these issues.
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The letter noted Harter’s “demonstrated commitment to forwarding the interests of women and other groups on campus whom we strongly believe have been largely overlooked in recent years, despite their increasing prominence in our student body and the larger community we serve.”

Fifty-five percent of UNLV’s students are women and 47 percent are minorities.

The letter stated that while the university has been designated a Minority-Serving Institution by the U.S. Department of Education, it has no ethnic studies department and the Afro-American Studies Program has been placed on hold. Though the majority of students are women, the women’s studies department lost departmental status in 2011 and two of four faculty positions were eliminated.

“As or more importantly,” the letter states, “the university has arguably lost rather than gained ground when it comes to hiring, retaining, and promoting faculty and administrators from traditionally under-represented groups and to achieving parity in pay when it comes to staff and faculty.”'

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Amping up or adding an "ethnic studies" dept(s) and/or re-departmentalizing "women's studies" will not help do the main thing that apparently feminists are hell-bent on seeing done in higher ed (at least, publicly): Getting female students into STEM fields. After all, if you've got them majoring in WST, how can they also major in PHY? Of course one can double-major. But majoring in PHY is usually enough for most students of Physics, unless they're just plain *real* schhhmmmaaart. And that's not typical.

But feminists are not about this so much as they are about getting male students out of higher ed.

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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2013-12-23 03:59

Let me get this right. . . the number of minority students, and female employees is essentially parity, and this is interpreted as women and minorities being marginalized? Please. The only real disparity I see here is in enrollment, in that women make up 10% more of the student body than men. What does Harter plan to do about this exactly?

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Submitted by xtrnl on Tue, 2013-12-24 03:22