ERIC Number: ED192645
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1980
Pages: 24
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On Campus with Women, Number 27, Summer 1980.
Association of American Colleges, Washington, DC.
A newsletter on issues pertaining to women's rights on campuses and in employment is presented. Developments and issues include the following: initiation of intercollegiate athletic championships for women in nine sports; a charge of unequal pay for women coaches; university cases of alleged sex discrimination in athletic programs; reference to maiden name on college admission forms; coordination of civil rights enforcement by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program; a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that racial quotas imposed by Congress are constitutional if designed to remedy past discrimination and if the quotas are flexible and temporary; a ruling that universities are to be treated similarly to other employers when they are charged with sex discrimination in employment practices; court cases regarding faculty tenure, equal pay, and sex discrimination; an organization formed at Cornell University to fight sex discrimination; the comparative status and earnings of men and women professors; women and minorities in professional fields; the status of women and minorities in California's postsecondary institutions; a new project to monitor Pregnancy Discrimination Act enforcement; the status of women in the federal government; help for displaced homemakers; sexual harassment and students; sexual harassment and employees; Black women in higher education; college enrollment trends; women's studies programs; fellowships, awards, and scholarships; and resource materials. (SW)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Blacks, Civil Rights, College Faculty, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Faculty Promotion, Females, Higher Education, Males, Minority Groups, Quotas, Salary Wage Differentials, Sex Discrimination, Tenure, Womens Athletics, Womens Education, Womens Studies
Project on the Status and Education Women, Association of American Colleges, 1818 R Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009
Publication Type: Collected Works - Serials
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Language: English
Sponsor: Carnegie Corp. of New York, NY.; Ford Foundation, New York, NY.
Authoring Institution: Association of American Colleges, Washington, DC.
Identifiers - Location: California
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