Washington State University's Affirmative Action Office was established sometime before the Fall of 1972 to ensure the fair and equal hiring of minorities on campus as well as dealing with student and faculty complaints related to inappropriate comments and hate speech. In the fall of 1974, the Affirmative Action Office came under fire from several minority groups on campus for failing to respond to the needs of the diverse WSU student body. Some time between 1974 and 1993, the Affirmative Action Office was restructured as the Center for Human Rights. The Affirmative Action Office is currently known as the Compliance and Civil Rights Program and is charged with overseeing Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Programs.
Primarily consists of hiring statistics related to the implementation of Affirmative Action from 1972-1977. Includes legal documents related to complaints against Washington State University for hiring based based on race and sex after the implemetation of Affirmative Action and Title IX. Also contains reports related to Equal Employment Opportunities.
This is an unprocessed collection. Any arrangement reflects either a pre-existing order from the records' creators or previous custodians, or preliminary sorting performed by staff.
Items are in no particular order. Some contained in acid-free folder based on subject matter but mostly unorganized.
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Preliminary Guide to the Washington State University Affirmative Action Office Correspondence, Reports, and Statistics, 1972-1977 (UA1980-29)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
The provenance of this material is unknown. It was received at WSU Libraries' MASC on November 12, 1980 and retained as UA1980-29.
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