UW-Milwaukee Office of Equity/Diversity Services Records, 1989-2015

Biography/History

The Equal Opportunity Office was renamed the Office of Diversity/Compliance in 1995, to reflect the increased scope of the office's responsibilities in conjunction with the hiring of its new director, Assistant Chancellor Charmaine Clowney. The office was a quasi-investigative body which received complaints of discrimination or sexual harassment from student, staff, or faculty and set up mediation sessions and hearings to resolve these complaints. During the period covered by this collection, the Office of Diversity/Compliance continued to administer the campus' affirmative action program, and was also responsible for administering the terms of 1993 OFCCP Conciliation Agreement, in which UWM pledged to make certain changes to improve diversity and climate on campus.

In 2000, as part of a general campus reorganization effort, the Office of Diversity/Compliance was renamed Equity/Diversity Services.

Assistant Chancellor, Equal Opportunity Program

1993-1995 Barbara Meacham

Assistant Chancellor for Diversity/Compliance

1995-1999 Charmaine Clowney

Director of Equity/Diversity Services

2000-2001 Charmaine Clowney
2002-2005 Anthony Hightower
2005-2011 Patricia Villarreal (Acting)
2011-2013 Francine Botts-Butler
2014-2015 Jazmin Taylor (Interim)
2016- Nelida Cortes (Interim)