Michigan State University Extension
Diversity and Pluralism - 02170187
12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED224369 AUTHOR: Yi, Peggy S.; Howard, Richard D.
TITLE: Identification of Problem Areas and Employment
Practices That Discriminate against Minorities and Women.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1980
NOTE: 23 p.; This paper was identified by a joint project of
the Institute on Desegregation at North Carolina Central
University and the ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education at
The George Washington University. The paper was also
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Association
of Institutional Research (Louisville, KY, 1980).
ABSTRACT: The methodology used by West Virginia University
(WVU) to identify areas of potential discrimination in
hiring practices is described. WVU uses the mathematical
method suggested in the U.S. Department of Labor's "1979
Guide to Fair Employment Practices" to monitor faculty
hiring and to determine discriminatory hiring practices.
This standard, which is constant for all disciplines, is an
index reflecting the ratio of the percent of minorities or
women hired to the percent of nonminorities or men hired.
Specifically, if this ratio is found to be less than .80,
there is probable cause for further investigation of hiring
practices. The following types of data are collected
annually: title of position vacancy, source from which the
candidate learned of the vacancy, number of applicants by
race and sex for each vacancy, and race and sex of the
individual hired for each position filled. The data
collection instrument, WVU Affirmative Action Recruitment
Activity Record, is appended, along with information on the
format for coding the data for keypunching. Data analyses
are undertaken using a SAS program, also appended, which
analyzes the university as a whole and the hiring procedure
of each college. The results of the analyses are presented
to the Affirmative Action Office in the form of tables, an
example of which is included. In addition to the computer
analyses, a summary sheet is developed to present an overall
picture of the university's hiring practices as well as
those of each college/school. A summary table for March 1978
August 1979 is appended. (SW)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: College-Faculty; Compliance-Legal; Data
Collection; Evaluation-Methods; Faculty-Integration;
Government-School-Relationship; Higher-Education;
Institutional-Research; Minority-Groups; Personnel-Policy;
Personnel-Selection; Racial-Discrimination; Sex
Discrimination; Women-Faculty
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Affirmative-Action; *College
Desegregation; *Employment-Practices; *Equal-Opportunities
Jobs; *Faculty-Recruitment; *Research-Methodology
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