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The University has a stated mission that diversity
is important to the Graduate School, but it hasn't done enough:
• More resources for the Office for Diversity and Equal Opportunity (ODEO), including an adequate budget and more staff
• Full disclosure of admission/retention statistics by department based on a report done by the ODEO
• Full disclosure of hiring practices
• ODEO should be extended to the professional schools without any preexisting diversity office
Related GESO reports:
• Endowing Injustice: Yale's Investment in Corrections Corporation of America [.pdf] Fall 2005
• The [Un]changing Face of the Ivy League [.pdf] February 2005
• The Few, the Proud: The State of Diversity at Yale [.pdf] 12/04/2003
• The Future of The Field: Psychology at Yale [.pdf]
Recent History:
Spring 2006 |
Leaders of the Equal Rights and Access Committee (ERAC) formally present a case for divestment from Corrections Corporation of America to Yale's Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility. The ACIR meeting is preceded by a rally on Beinecke Plaza and a march down College & Prospect. GESO kicks a national day of action, organized in coordination with NOT WITH OUR MONEY that includes actions at more than a dozen campuses in protest of university investment in Corrections Corporation of America through an investment manager, Farallon Capital Management. Just weeks later, Farallon sells its entire holdings in CCA.
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Fall 2005 |
GESO kicks off a campaign to call on the university to divest from Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison company in the United States. Hundreds of members of the Yale community sign a divestment petition. GESO publishes a report, Endowing Injustice, which details Yale's investment in Corrections Corporation of America and the company's record of human rights violations. Faculty at Yale join GESO members and community activists to speak out against Yale's Investment in CCA at a public rally on Beinecke Plaza.
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November 2005 |
After years of lobbying by GESO (see below), Yale announces a multi-million dollar faculty diversity initiative and increased support for ODEO.
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Older History:
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Summer 1996 |
GESO holds an issues summit. Out of that comes a proposal to begin a diversity committee within GESO. Research begins on an Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA).
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March 2001 |
Four years after GESO’s Accessibility and Diversity (A&D) Committee presented a report for the formation of an Office of Diversity, the administration appointed Assistant Dean Liza Cariaga-Lo to head the Graduate School’s first Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity (ODEO). However, rather than hiring both an Associate Dean and a full-time Director (as did the Medical School), the Graduate School stipulated one hire at the level of Assistant Dean.
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August 2001 |
Three Yale graduate students and GESO members help New Haven’s Amistad Committee prepare a report on the historical relationship between the University and the institution of slavery. The report, still available on the web at yaleslavery.org garnered national media attention and spurred a move by Northern institutions to critically examine their own role in the existence of American slavery.
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April 2004 |
More than 300 graduate students file a formal grievance with the Yale administration to request: 1) a substantial increase in resources allocated to the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity (ODEO) and the immediate adoption of measures to retain and promote women and people of color in each department of the graduate school; 2) permanent institutional support for flagship research institutes, such as the Center for the Study of Race, Inequality and Politics (CSRIP) and for under-resourced academic fields, such as gay and lesbian studies and area studies; 3) the creation of an independent grievance committee.
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Related Readings
• Toward Affirmative Action for Economic Diversity
The Chronicle of Higher Education
March 19, 2004
By RICHARD D. KAHLENBERG
• Mason, M.A., & Goulden, M., "Marriage and Baby Blues: Re-defining Gender Equity" [.pdf]
• Mason, M.A., & Goulden, M., "Do Babies Matter: The Effect of Family Formation on the Lifelong Careers of Academic Men and Women", Academe, November—December 2002 Volume 88, Number 6. [link]
• So Many Committees, So Little Time
Professors' growing service obligations make advancement tougher for many of them, particularly women and minority-group members
The Chronicle of Higher Education
By PIPER FOGG
December 19, 2003
• Class Rules: the Fiction of Egalitarian Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education
July 25, 2003
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