Albany Student Press 1971-12-07

—'13 percent of the faculty has tenure ; minori ty group faculty members , however, comprise less than one percent of the tenured faculty. —There is only one minor i ty group member in a posit ion of assistant dean or higher. —Women make up 18 percent of the total faculty and are found mainly in the lower level posi t ions of instructor and assistant professor, —There is a marked pat tern of salary differentials between men and women in nearly all job classifications on the faculty . For example , all male full professors are higher paid than women. T h e Af fi rmative Act ion Program is in tended t o increase rapidly the number , of minor i ty m e m b e r s and w o m e n employed , (Minority members are defined as Spanish-surnamed, American I n d i a n , A f r o A m e r i c a n and Oriental .) The vice presidents of Management and Planning, University Affairs, and Academic Affairs oversee most of the hiring that this university does. They have been asked to submit their plans for hiring minori ty members and women during t h e coming five years, Th«se plans are the critical part of the universi ty 's program to end discr iminat ion in employment ,