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Leonard (Karen) files on equity issues for women in higher education
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Academic Senate committees Series 1. 1971-2012

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series consists of material Karen Leonard collected while a member or chair of UCI Academic Senate committees on Affirmative Action (including chairing the systemwide committee) and Privilege and Tenure. Both committees involved grievance cases by women. The material from the Committee on Privilege and Tenure includes information about grievance cases, reports and opinions, correspondence, her appointment to the committee and resignation letter, notes, resolutions and planning documents, and minutes of meetings. The material from the Committee on Affirmative Action includes reports, statistics, minutes of meetings, policies, speeches, and other administrative files.

Series Arrangement

The series is arranged in its original order.
box 1, folder 1-5

Committee on Privilege and Tenure 1972-1994

box 1, folder 15-24, box 2, folder 53-54, box 3, folder 1, 11

Committees on Affirmative Action various documents 1982-2008

Scope and Content Note

Folders contain loose papers related to Committees on Affirmative Action that were grouped together.
box 3, folder 12

Committee on Affirmative Action annual reports 1993-1995

box 3, folder 13

Committee on Affirmative Action policies, minutes, and reports 1995-1996

box 3, folder 14

Committee on Affirmative Action, University of California, Berkeley meeting 1995

box 3, folder 15

Committee on Affirmative Action changes 1988-1989, undated

box 3, folder 16

Committee on Affirmative Action correspondence and workplans 1994-1995

box 3, folder 17

Committee on Affirmative Action, University of California, Irvine 1994-1996

box 3, folder 18

Student Affirmative Action 1995

box 3, folder 19

Affirmative Action review 1995

box 3, folder 20

University of California admin - central 1971-1973

box 3, folder 24-25

Committee on Affirmative Action response to the Academic Task Force report 1990-1994

box 3, folder 26-28

Committee on Affirmative Action statistics, minutes, and reports 1989-1994

box 3, folder 29

Affirmative Action Status Report for the University of California, Irvine campus and medical center 1979 April 1

box 3, folder 30

"Faculty Women's Struggle for Equality at the University of California, Davis" by Martha West 2000

box 3, folder 31

Committee on Affirmative Action minutes, University of California, Irvine 1993-1995

box 4, folder 1

Registrar - GPAs by sex 1974

box 4, folder 2

Committee on Affirmative Action speeches and compilations 1974-1995

Scope and Content Note

The original folder title was retained but the folder contains minutes, resolutions, and correspondence of the Committee on Affirmative Action.
box 4, folder 3

US Department of Labor, The Earnings Gap Between Women and Men booklet 1979

box 4, folder 5

University of California newspaper clippings 1973-1974

box 4, folder 6

Committee on Affirmative Action culture and diversity 1994-1995

box 4, folder 8

Joan Wilson report on Affirmative Action 1974-1975

box 4, folder 9

Target of Opportunity Program (TOP) 1991-1995

box 4, folder 31-34

Committees on Affirmative Action various documents 1989-2000

Scope and Content Note

Folders contain loose papers related to Committees on Affirmative Action that were grouped together.
box 4, folder 50

Don Bunker: Affirmative Action report and various Academic Senate materials 1972-2012 1972-1976

 

California Women in Higher Education (CWHE) Series 2. 1969-2018

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series consists of material collected while Karen Leonard was a member and co-chair of California Women in Higher Education (CWHE), a statewide organization founded in 1972 to advocate, protect, and promote the status of women faculty, administrators, staff, and students in higher education. The series consists of the material related to the UCI founding conference in December 1973; administrative files and planning documents once the organization was initiated; grievance cases from women on the various campuses including Stanford, University of California, San Diego, and UCI; reports and resolutions; and information about members.

Series Arrangement

The series is arranged in its original order.
box 1, folder 6, 14

University of California, Irvine chapter 1975-1979

box 1, folder 7

Dagmar Barnouw case 1977

box 1, folder 8

Founding convention 1973

box 1, folder 9

Private colleges 1973

box 1, folder 10-11

Correspondence, minutes, and reports 1974-1981

box 1, folder 12

Grievances, women elsewhere 1974

box 1, folder 13

Barbara Honegger, Stanford case 1976

box 3, folder 21

Lucy Sells, University of California, Berkeley 1969-1973

box 4, folder 14

Lucy Sells - report and obituary 1973-2018

box 4, folder 17

Cases - women at University of California, Irvine 1981-1982

box 4, folder 35

Renée Hubert obituary 2005

box 4, folder 36-42, 46

Administrative files 1973-1979

box 4, folder 43

Contact list and application undated

box 4, folder 44

Letter to lapsed members undated

box 4, folder 45

Letters for new members undated

box 4, folder 47

Resolutions 1974-1976

box 4, folder 48

Mary Key obituary and Fatima Alikhan business card 2003

 

Cases Series 3. 1968-2017

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series consists of grievance cases of women in higher education collected by Karen Leonard, either through the Academic Senate committees, California Women in Higher Education, or Women at Irvine. The majority of the folders relate to women at the University of California, Irvine including Therese Lynn and Alice Laborde. Other folders relate to women at other University of California campuses, such as Dagmar Barnouw at the University of California, San Diego.

Series Arrangement

The series is arranged in its original order.
box 2, folder 1

Richard Regosin and Eloise Kloke 1973-1974

box 2, folder 2

Newspaper clipping about women faculty members and notes 1976

box 2, folder 3

Palmquist appeal 1974

box 2, folder 4

May Loh 1970-1975

box 2, folder 5

Lecturers 1977

box 2, folder 6

Complaint - Department of Labor 1978-1983

box 2, folder 7

University of California, San Diego - Paul Saltman 1972

box 2, folder 8

Mary Key 1980

box 2, folder 9

Sharlie 1974-1977

box 2, folder 10

Eloise Hay at University of California, Santa Barbara - California Women in Higher Education case 1980

box 2, folder 11

Dagmar and University of California, San Diego, Affirmative Action, etc. 1971-1973

box 2, folder 12

Dagmar Mss. undated

box 2, folder 13

Jackie Desbarats 1979-1984

box 2, folder 14

Marjorie Mosier 1988-1997

box 2, folder 15

Jane Newman 1988

box 2, folder 16

Pamela Prete 1988

box 2, folder 17

Therese Lynn case 1979-2017

box 2, folder 18

Dr. Anita Newman 1974

box 2, folder 19

Mei Bickner case 1974

box 2, folder 20

Alice Laborde 1979-1980

box 2, folder 21

Dagmar Barnouw 1968-1997

box 2, folder 22

Fair Employment Practice Commission (FEPC) - individual complaint - Karen Leonard 1970-1972

box 2, folder 24

New University on Comparative Culture Asian Languages, May Loh and Kay Wilson 1975

box 2, folder 25

Vera Skubic 1974

box 2, folder 26

Obituaries of Mei Bickner and Jean Carlin, information about Norma Chinchilla 2017

box 2, folder 27

Women and Tenure, UCI 1979

box 2, folder 28

Emily Hicks 1978-1979

box 2, folder 29

Norma Chinchilla's case 1979-1983

box 2, folder 30

Dagmar Barnouw on her case by Emily Abel 1980

box 2, folder 31

Therese Lynn and Alice Laborde 1978

box 2, folder 32

Faculty women's cases 1975

box 2, folder 47

Norma Chinchilla case 1975-1990

box 3, folder 22, 32

University of California, San Diego, women 1972-1973

box 3, folder 23

San Diego National Organization of Women (NOW) task force 1972

box 4, folder 4

Local colleges - University of California, San Diego (third) legislative information, women 1970-1972

box 4, folder 7

Retirement system - women and University of California 2017

box 4, folder 10

Fair Employment Practice Commission (FEPC) Community College San Diego County 1972

box 4, folder 11

Fair Employment Practice Commission (FEPC) official request for 1421 1972

box 4, folder 12

Community College data - San Diego. re: Fair Employment Practice Commission (FEPC) complaint 1971-2017

box 4, folder 13

Fair Employment Practice Commission (FEPC) 1972-1973

box 4, folder 16

University of California, Berkeley women 1976

box 4, folder 51

Fair Employment Practice Commission (FEPC): How To 1973-1975

box 4, folder 52

Orange County sex discrimination in Community Colleges 1973-1974

 

University Council-American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT) Series 4. 1972-1995

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series consists of material Karen Leonard collected as Affirmative Action Coordinator of University Council-American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT), the union organized on UC Irvine's campus as an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). Material includes testimonies and statements given by Leonard as Affirmative Action Coordinator, including a testimony about equity issues for women on UC campuses at March Fong's Legislative Committee on Public Employees hearing at University of California, Berkeley in November 1973; a statement to the California Fair Employment Practices Commission about the proposed guidelines for discrimination based on sex in April 1974; and a critique of the UC Salary Inequity Review to key members of the California Legislature in June 1974. Other materials in the series consist of minutes of meetings, correspondence, newsletters, reports, booklets and guidelines, newspaper clippings, and other administrative files.

Series Arrangement

The series is arranged in its original order.
box 2, folder 23

Fair Employment Practice Commission (FEPC) guidelines University Council - American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT) comment 1974

box 2, folder 33

Salary inequities 1974-1995

box 2, folder 34

Administrative files 1972-1977

box 2, folder 35

Booklet 1974 September

box 2, folder 36

Affirmative Action, official preparations 1973-1974

box 2, folder 37

By and about others/non-AA, state and local issues 1973-1974

box 2, folder 38

Testimony at University of California, Berkeley 1973

Scope and Content Note

Folder consists of a testimony by Karen Leonard about the situation for women on UC campuses at March Fong's Legislative Committee on Public Employees hearing, as well as correspondence and newspaper clippings.
box 2, folder 39-40

Affirmative Action 1974-1976

 

University of California, Irvine Series 5. 1970-2018

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series consists of material collected by Karen Leonard on women at the University of California, Irvine through organizations such as Women at Irvine and the Faculty Women's Association, as well as through committee work and California Women in Higher Education. Materials include documentation about the activities of Women at Irvine such as interviewing department chairs about their lack of women and people from underrepresented backgrounds in faculty positions, collecting annual statistics, setting hiring goals, and publishing a booklet advocating for Affirmative Action and assessing UCI's compliance status. The series also includes documentation on the effort to establish a Women's Studies program at UCI in 1975, the founding of the UCI Faculty Women's Association in October 1988, as well as general correspondence, charts, and administrative files relating to women at UCI.

Series Arrangement

The series is arranged in its original order.
box 1, folder 25

News clippings UCI women 1973-1979

box 1, folder 26

UCI women: Senate lists 1982-1994

box 1, folder 27

Recruitment 1972-1995

box 1, folder 28

Resignations and separations 1980-1989

box 1, folder 29

Women at UCI, Karen Leonard 1973-1979

box 1, folder 30

Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women (ACSW) minutes etc. 1971-1973

box 1, folder 31-32

Women at UCI 1972-1978

box 1, folder 33

Early women at UCI 1987-2009

box 1, folder 34

Initial women's moves 1972

box 1, folder 35

Proposed outline, book - Women in Higher Education circa 1973

box 1, folder 36

Unspecified full-time equivalent (FTE) 1974

box 1, folder 37

Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs 1974

box 1, folder 38

McGaugh, James L. 1975

box 1, folder 39

General information 1980-1989

box 1, folder 40

Interviews 1974

box 1, folder 41

Booklet and draft of one for faculty women 1975

box 1, folder 42

Proposal - Jane Freeburg 1974-1975

box 1, folder 43-48

Women's Studies 1975-1982

box 2, folder 41-46, 51-52

Statistics 1975-1999

box 2, folder 48

UCI women 2001

box 2, folder 49-50

Faculty Women's Association (FWA) circa 1980-1989

box 3, folder 2

Faculty women 1987-1996

box 3, folder 3-6, 8-10

Annual statistics 1987-2009

box 3, folder 7

Women meeting 2000-2009

box 4, folder 15

Report of the Women's Studies Planning Committee 1975 October

box 4, folder 18

United Nations World Conference of the International Women's Year booklet and clippings 1975

Scope and Content Note

The University of California, Irvine, sent Karen Leonard to the conference.
box 4, folder 19

Report on the West Cost Women's Studies Conference 1974

box 4, folder 20

Chapter I of Woman's Place by Cynthia F. Epstein 1971

box 4, folder 21

Readings, Comparative Culture II 1973, undated

box 4, folder 22

Women's Studies, on structure elsewhere 1972-1975

box 4, folder 23

Women's Studies original surveys HS girls and dean's attitudes undated

box 4, folder 24

Various Women's Studies undated

box 4, folder 25

Women's Studies proposals and memos undated

box 4, folder 26

Women's Studies file, summer 1975

box 4, folder 27

Personal notes on Women's Studies, time record 1974-1976

box 4, folder 28

Women's Studies history at University of California, Irvine to 1975 1971-1979

box 4, folder 29

Various articles circa 1970s

box 4, folder 30

Women at Irvine own compilations and correspondence 1972-1978

box 4, folder 49

Correspondence 2017-2018