Motion US06/07-5 – Request Accessibility to Affirmative Action Plans and Summary Data

 

 

Sponsored by:                 Bill Harbaugh, and Peter Lambert, Economics

For Action:                    November 29. 2006

 

 

The Senate requests that President Frohnmayer direct the UO Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Director to undertake the following, in a timely manner following passage of this motion:

 

(a) File copies of UO Affirmative Action Plans for the years prior to 1997 with the UO archives.

 

(b) Post the current Affirmative Action Plan, and all available past plans starting in 1992, on the Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity and VP for Diversity websites, at aaeo.uoregon.edu and vpdiversity.uoregon.edu respectively.

 

(c) Post the annual summary information from the EEO-6 reports on these sites, for all years starting in 1992.

 

(d) Update this information annually as new EEO-6 reports are submitted, and as new Affirmative Action plans are approved and signed by the UO President.

 

 

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Background:

 

Affirmative Action Plans are public records and do not contain sensitive information about individuals. The plans are signed by the UO President as follows:

 

Oregon Administrative Rule 166-475-0095 requires that Affirmative Action Plans be transferred to the UO archives after 10 years. The rule is posted at http://libweb.uoregon.edu/speccoll/records/schedule/166-475-0095.html#3

 

The most recent plan that is currently in the archives is from 1982.

 

EEO-6 reports contain summary (not individual) data about the racial and ethnic background of UO employees, by “job group.” For example, CAS Tenure Track Social Science Faculty would be one group.