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Press: "UNM Names New Dean for Fine Arts College Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico. UNM officials said Moy will take on his new duties beginning Jan. 2. Moy has served as chairman of the department of theater and drama at the University of Wisconsin in Madison since 1998. He has been a member of the faculty there since 1981. He also has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Northwestern University and the University of Oregon in Eugene. Moy's recent work focuses on representations of race in America, according to a UNM news release. His book credits include ``Marginal Sights: Staging the Chinese in America'' and ``Reviewing Asian America: Locating Diversity." 5/31/02 The Daily Northwestern: "NU hires 10 black profs. Total of
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5/31/02 Sacramento Bee: "Jury rejects
race as factor in UC Davis scientists 5/1/02 The Amherst Student: "Chemistry hires new professor with
tenure," vacated by Assistant Professor of Chemistry David Padowitz when he left Amherst last year after being passed over for tenure. Upon being hired, Leung was immediately granted a tenured position as a full professor. Leung is currently an associate professor at Mount Holyoke College. The last professor to be hired by the College as a fully tenured professor was Professor of Political Science Uday Mehta, who was hired in 2000. An acclaimed researcher in the field of physical chemistry, Leungs expertise is in small molecule gas spectroscopy. She is the author of many journal articles, some of which she co-authored with her undergraduate students. "Professor Leung is a physical chemist whose work has won her national recognition, whose creative and innovative teaching has earned her accolades from faculty and students, and who is just a tremendously wonderful human being," said Professor of Chemistry Patricia OHara, the chair of the department. "We count ourselves incredibly lucky to have her join our department." In most cases, newly hired members of the faculty are given the position of assistant professor, a tenure-track position. After three years, they are considered for renewal and are considered for tenure three years after that. Once the chemistry department decided to offer Leung the position, an ad hoc committee was formed to determine the title Leung would be offered. The committee recommended to Dean of the Faculty Lisa Raskin and the Committee of Six that Leung be granted a full professorship. "We wouldnt get someone like Helen without [a tenure offer]," said Gerety. "You bring leadership into a department. You bring in somebody whose success you can know. [Offering tenure to a new hire] is the exception, not the rule," he said. "On a more personal note, I have been at Amherst for almost 20 years and this will be the first time that I will have a senior woman colleague in chemistry," said OHara. "Im more than thrilled." Currently, Leungs research work is being funded both by the National Science Foundation and the Dreyfus Foundation, both highly reputed organizations. Members of the Colleges student advisory group, headed by Philip Chau 02, interviewed Leung and recommended her as the top candidate in the applicant pool. Born in Hong Kong, Leung received her undergraduate degree from California State University (CSU) at Northridge in 1983, where she majored in biology and chemistry. She received her Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Harvard University, where she studied under renowned chemist William Klemperer. She completed a year of postdoctoral work at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, before gaining professorship at Williams College, and then ultimately moving on to Mount Holyoke in recent years. She is the wife of Professor of Chemistry Mark Marshall.
journalism program at a college in New York City, was hired Thursday as new dean of the University of Nevada's journalism school. Lee, currently at Queens College City University, was the first Asian American hired for on-air television news in Sacramento, at KXTV. She also has worked at stations in Chicago and Philadelphia as well as CNN's New York bureau. She will succeed William Slater as the new dean of the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno. Slater left the university earlier this month to become dean of the College of Communications at Texas Christian University. Born in Hong Kong, Lee grew up in New York City on Manhattan's Lower East Side. She attended Columbia University and the City College of New York. She is the author of ``Asian Americans,'' ``Asian American Actors,'' and a novel, ``Virtual Escape.''
Chang-rae Lee to its faculty Saturday. The board of trustees appointed Lee to Princeton's Humanities Council and creative writing program. The appointment takes effect July 1. Lee, 36, joins acclaimed authors including Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton. ``It's not about prestige,'' Lee said in a phone interview Saturday. ``It really is about artistic possibility and inspiration for me. I almost feel as though I'm in a situation that's close to what a Princeton student might feel, who wants to work with these writers.'' Lee first caught the publishing world's attention in 1995 with his debut novel ``Native Speaker,'' which won the Ernest Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and the American Book Award. The book is narrated by a young New Yorker who works for a private intelligence agency and has been assigned to spy on a Korean-American councilman. Lee followed with another novel, ``A Gesture Life,'' the story of an elderly medic who remembers treating Korean ``comfort women'' during World War II. That book won awards including the Anisfeld-Wolf Prize in Fiction and the Asian-American Literary Award. Professor Paul Muldoon, director of the creative writing program, described Lee as ``a great writer, a great teacher and, as luck would have it, a great person.'' ``The program has been arguably the best in the country,'' Muldoon said in a prepared statement. ``With the arrival of Chang-rae Lee, it is unarguably the best in the country.'' Lee's writings explore themes of identity, belonging and assimilation. His family moved to the United States from Korea when he was 3, settling in Westchester, New York. He is finishing his third novel, which could be out early next year. Before becoming a writer, Lee worked as an equities analyst on Wall Street. He received a master of fine arts degree in creative writing from the University of Oregon in 1993, and stayed on as a faculty member. In 1998, he became the director of MFA Program in Creative Writing at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He was an Old Dominion Fellow of the Humanities Council at Princeton last fall. ``I'm not a teacher who also writes books. I'm a writer who talks about his work, his craft and his ideas about language,'' Lee said. ``That's the only way you can learn from someone who's a practicing artist.''
At UC Berkeley: Proposition 209 May Be Partly Responsible," The number of minority faculty hired by UC Berkeley continues to remain low, a lingering effect of Proposition 209's passage in 1996, according to some professors. Currently, minority ladder-rank faculty, who are either already tenured or on the tenure track, make up 16% of the university's overall faculty. Out of the 64 faculty hires in the 2001-02 academic year, 11 were Asian American and one was Latino. Percentages of underrepresented minorities - blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans - show a steep drop in faculty hires. In the five years before Prop. 209, underrepresented minorities constituted 11% of faculty hires. Five years later, the figure decreased by 7%, according to a 2000 report of the chancellor's advisory committee on diversity. Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Jan de Vries pointed to the low numbers as merely a continuation of the lack of minority faculty hires even before the passage of Prop. 209. "It never was good, and it isn't good now," he said. Statistics show UC Berkeley has hired an average of five underrepresented minority faculty members in ladder-rank positions per year in the past 10 years. The Faculty Equity Assistance Office, in the Chancellor's office, reviews faculty outreach and recruitment and recommends new programs to diversify faculty. Its July 2000 report recommended departments be held principally accountable. "No amount of energy at the campus level will be effective to promote diversity if changes are not felt directly at the 'local' level where key personnel decisions are made," according to the report. Departments initiate the hiring process by requesting faculty positions from the division dean, and the request eventually makes its way to the academic senate. "The decentralized nature of hiring in Berkeley through departments makes it difficult to do things from the chancellor's office," said Charles Henry, former vice associate provost for faculty equity and chair of the African American studies department. "You really need advocates in each department that are going to monitor the search process and advocate for diversity." De Vries attributed the low numbers of minority faculty hires to the competitive marketplace and low numbers of minority doctorates, rather than the lack of UC's commitment to diversity. Oftentimes, he said, UC Berkeley must compete with other high-ranking universities for qualified minority candidates. While approximately 80% of the faculty offers made to nonminority candidates are accepted, only about 50% of offers to minority candidates are accepted, he said. "If private schools are more attractive to some people because of the prestige, then there isn't much we can do about it," said John McWhorter, a UC Berkeley linguistics professor said. But others related the lower acceptance rate for minority candidates to whether UC Berkeley is an inviting place for minority faculty. They said the lack of numbers in minority faculty makes it difficult to develop a sense of community on campus. "If the 'old boys network' don't feel comfortable with you, and you're giving off signs that you don't feel comfortable with them, then you get excluded," said Angelica Stacy, associate vice provost for faculty equity. De Vries also cited the lack of minorities earning doctorates nationwide as another barrier to finding qualified minority candidates. "If the pipeline isn't filling up, who are we going to hire in 10 years," he questioned. But according to an annual census of new doctorate recipients, percentages of doctorates awarded to minority groups are steadily rising. In 2000, racial and ethnic minority groups earned over 16% of all doctorates awarded to U.S. citizens, "the largest percentage ever." The 4,389 doctorates awarded in 2000 to racial and ethnic minorities illustrate a 25.1% increase from 1995 and an 86% increase from 1990, according to the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center. The numbers of minority faculty hires at UC Berkeley don't correlate with the numbers of qualified graduate students who are earning their doctorates, said ASUC Academic Affairs Vice President Catherine Ahn. But the numbers of doctorates awarded to racial and ethnic minorities vary according to academic fields. According to the National Science Foundation, the numbers of blacks and Latinos earning doctorates in science and engineering in 2000 equaled nearly half the number of whites earning doctorates in science and engineering that year.
arts and science faculty's 355 members -- or 12.4% -- are minorities. Among the 265 professors who hold tenure, only 19 -- or 7.1% -- are non-white. No one has any definitive explanation for the racial disparities among those who hold tenure, but observers point to an absence of strong mentoring programs for young minority professors, disproportionate demands on the time of instructors of color and a system in which academic programs that employ many minorities do not make tenure decisions. Some say the College offers inadequate mentoring for junior faculty of color, a failure that, these critics argue, leads to intellectual isolation. "As far as I know, I could be the only tenured Asian humanist on campus," Chinese professor Hua-yuan Mowry said, who has been at the College since 1975. "Who do I discuss my work with?" Faculty of color may face special barriers because many are hired into programs such as African and African-American studies, Asian and Middle Eastern studies and Native American studies that are inter-disciplinary in their approach. Tenure decisions, however, are made by departments whose members often judge a candidate's scholarship from the perspective of one particular discipline and are sometimes unsure of how to evaluate interdisciplinary research. While Dartmouth does compare favorably with its peer institutions when it comes to black faculty, strikingly few Asian professors -- a minority group that is well-represented at most institutions of higher education -- hold tenured jobs at the College. Indeed, only four Asian faculty members held tenure as of last year, compared with a comparatively higher number of nine blacks and six Hispanics. Mowry attributed the under-representation of tenured Asian faculty to an unsupportive environment that causes high attrition rates. "Culturally, it's a very difficult place," she said. "Sympathetic understanding from your faculty and deans is very important, and I feel that's lacking." Harris agreed that the College has to work hard to recruit and retain more faculty from Asian backgrounds. "I think that's one of the main issues for us," he said. Excerpts from Harvard Magazine, March/April '02, "Faculty Diversity," by Cathy A. Trower, senior research associate, and Richard P. Chait, director of the Project on Faculty Appointments at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Chait is also professor of higher education. (http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/030218.html) Colleges in general are now far more diverse than three decades ago. In 1971, 42% of undergraduates were women, versus 56% in 2001; 8.4% were African Americans, now 11%; and 2.8% were Hispanic, now 8%. In 1976, 1.8% of college enrollees were Asian Americans; now the number stands at 6%. Despite 30 years of affirmative action, and contrary to public perceptions, the American faculty profile, especially at preeminent universities, remains largely white and largely male. Women currently represent 36% of full-time faculty compared to 23% in the early 1970s. Although this represents a very substantial gain nationwide, women constitute only 25% of the full-time faculty at research universities, versus 10% in 1970. Faculty of color remain a very small part of the professoriate. (Whites constituted 95% of all faculty members in 1972 and 83% in 1997.) Most of the growth in minority participation has been by Asian Americans, from 2.2% in 1975 to 4.5% in 1997. The percentage of African-American faculty members at all levels has been remarkably stagnant--4.4% in 1975 and 5% in 1997--and almost half of all black faculty teach at historically black colleges. The increase in Hispanic faculty has also been slow: from 1.4% in 1975 to 2.8% in 1997. Minorities earned 16% of the master's degrees and 18.6% of the doctorates in 2000. Whites accounted for 79.3% of all earned doctorates in 2000, followed by Asians at 7.8%; other minority groups combined accounted for 10.8%. Blacks were most represented in education (12.4%)--and were underrepresented in most arts and sciences fields--while Asians earned 17.5% of engineering doctorates. Still, the relative scarcity of persons of color with doctorates does not entirely explain the lack of progress for minority faculty. The number of minority faculty increased considerably between 1983 and 1993--by 44%. But the percentage increase was much less dramatic--from 9.3% to 12.2%, mostly attributable to gains by Asian Americans. Table 10: PERCENT OF DOCTORAL DEGREES IN 2000, BY RACE
Table 12: PERCENT FULL-TIME FACULTY, BY RACE AND INSTITUTIONAL TYPE, 1992
1/29/02 The Dartmouth: "Students demand Asian Am. studies," an Asian American Studies program at Dartmouth. "A lot of people are under the impression that Asian American Studies is the same thing as Asian Studies. That's one of the stereotypes we're trying to combat, the concept that Asian Americans are perpetual foreigners," Chu said. The Class of 2005 has the largest number of Asian and Asian-American students in Dartmouth history. Currently, there are two courses dealing specifically with Asian American issues in the history department and two in the English department. At Columbia, Brown, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania, students can already opt to major in Asian American studies.
4/19/01 Tufts newspaper: "Harvard hires Sugata Bose, Tufts' South Asian center founder," Professor Sugata Bose, highly regarded for implementing Tufts' program in South Asian studies, will be leaving Tufts at the end of this semester to accept an endowed chair at Harvard. Bose said he hopes to build a South Asian studies curriculum at Harvard modeled after the Tufts program. Bose will be the first South-Asian historian to fill Harvard's Gardiner Chair in Oceanic History and Affairs - a position which has remained unoccupied for over two decades. Bose was given a fully tenured professorship. "Harvard does not have a South Asian center - it has more of a focus on East Asia and the Middle East," Bose said. 4/16/01 Yale Daily News: "Law School tenures first minority female professor," The Yale Law School appointed Amy Chua to a tenured position. Chua, whose work focuses on international development in Asia, will be the first woman of color to become a tenured non-clinical faculty member at the law school. Chua's main areas of focus include development, markets, and democracy in developing countries, particularly in Asia. Chua will be the Law School's first female minority tenured professor. April 13-19, 2001 AsianWeek.com: APAHE Goes National: Coalition addresses myriad of issues. In 1998 API faculty comprised 9% of the University of California at Berkeley faculty, while API students were 39.4% of the population, according to a recent report to Berkeleys Chancellor Robert Berdahl entitled "Asian Pacific Americans at Berkeley: Visibility and Marginality." Over 400 professors, staff and students from across the country attended the first national Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education (APAHE) conference, held at the Miyako Hotel in San Francisco April 6-8, 2001. Gene Awakani is an APAHE co-president. The keynote speaker was Bob Suzuki, president of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. APIs make up 5% of the national faculty, but less than 2% of its administrators. At last years conference, APAHE led Asian American communities in demanding freedom and justice for Dr. Wen Ho Lee, who was branded a spy for China and later exonerated by a federal judge. The group organized a boycott by urging all Asian American college graduates not to apply for jobs at the national laboratories operated by the U.S. Department of Energy as long as Lee was held without a trial. Next years conference will be held in New York, and a proposal for a research center focusing specifically on Asian Americans in higher education at UCLA is on the table. 3/26/01 Yale Daily News, "Defining diversity down: the job left undone," Yale College will have no minority masters next year and the University has hired embarrassingly few women, black, Asian, or Hispanic professors in the last four years. In the last four years, the proportion of women on the ladder faculty -- including assistant, associate and full professors and Gibbs instructors -- has increased a paltry 2.1%; black faculty 0.3%; Asian faculty 1.5%; and Hispanic faculty a woeful 0.2%. In the last year, three vacancies in residential college masterships were created and filled by ladder faculty -- all white, all male. The departure of Davenport College Master Gerald Thomas next year will leave the University with no college masters of an underrepresented minority and only three women. Of the 1,604 ladder faculty at Yale in 2000-2001, 25.8% were women, 2.8% black, 8.2% Asian and 1.9% Hispanic. 3/23/2001 Boston Globe: "Race a focus in med-school matches," In surveys, minority medical students are three times more likely than whites to say their goal is to serve poor communities, which may make them less likely to stay on at medical schools and teaching hospitals where they could mentor students and help ensure that minority patients are treated fairly. The problem was on the agenda yesterday as 23,981 medical students across the country and around the world ripped open envelopes to find out their assignments to internships, the first and most grueling year of medical apprenticeship. The results also looked good to Dr. Nancy Oriol, associate dean for student affairs, one of several administrators who are making minority faculty recruitment a top priority: 51% of this year's minority graduates will go on to Harvard-affiliated hospitals such as Beth Israel Deaconess, up from 10% last year. A lot of the Harvard hospitals made an effort to woo minority graduates this year. The Association of American Medical Colleges, which runs the Match Day program, does not keep track of race in the process, so there are no national statistics on how many black, Hispanic, and American Indian students - those designated underrepresented by medical schools - get their first choice. But the AAMC, too, has raised concerns, publishing a study last year that found minority faculty advanced at slower rates and prompting an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association calling on schools to recruit more aggressively and make faculty positions more inviting for minority doctors, in part by placing more value on research and clinical work focused on underserved patients. 3/1/01 Yale Daily News: "Data show faculty is slow to diversify Number of women and minorities creeps upward,": University figures describing the makeup of the faculty show that at the beginning of the 2000-2001 academic year, Yale had 1,604 ladder faculty, which includes assistant, associate and full professors, and Gibbs instructors. 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