The collection consists largely of material from the late 1980s and early- to
mid-1990s related to the Office of Equity/Diversity Services's ongoing creation and
revision of affirmative action programs and redress of discrimination complaints. In
addition to campus-wide affirmative action plans, the collection also contains
diversity assessment plans from individual departments, describing the state of
diversity in each department and the steps that each took to increase that
diversity. A number of these report folders contain Utilization Analyses, which
break down the percentage of women and minorities in each position in a department,
school, or division and compare it to the percentage in the greater workforce. Other
folders include breakdowns of complaints handled by the office, with personally
identifying information removed to anonymize these breakdowns for reporting
purposes.
Also included in the collection are subject files describing the activities that led
to the creation of the affirmative action plans. In addition to general
correspondence files, the collection contains information on the campus-wide
Affirmative Action Oversight Committee, the 1992-1993 Department of Justice Audit of
UWM's diversity programs, studies of faculty workload and salary equity, and copies
of The ADA and You, a newsletter distributed by the
office to inform UWM employees of their responsibilities with regards to the 1990
Americans with Disabilities Act. The collection also includes drafts of UWM's Sexual
Harassment and Discrimination Policies, with related correspondence and
documentation.
