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.
A collection of adminstrative and legal files related to the implementation of Title IX circa 1973. Items include restructuring documents related to the desegregation of physical education classes and sports, corrrespondence between university employees and the Washington State Women's Council, a collection self-evaluative reports, and complaints related to WSU's implementation of Title IX from 1976-1982.
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.
Contains mostly administrative files and evaluative reports related to the implementation of Title IX. Box 1 contains files related to the definitions and laws related to Title IX. Box 2 contains mostly self-evaluative reports. Box 3 contains administrative files and evaluations related to various sports teams and committees.
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Copyright restrictions apply.
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Preliminary Guide to the Washington State University Affirmative Action Office Office Files, 1976-1982 (UA1987-29)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
This material was transferred to WSU Libraries' MASC by Anthony (last name unrecorded) of the Affirmative Action Office on September 10, 1987 and retained as UA1987-29.
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