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SENIOR WOMEN’S COUNCIL
The Senior Women’s Council was founded in 1993 to create a forum for defining and actively addressing issues that promote gender equity and diversity at UCSB, a concern that has relevance for all facets of the campus community. All tenured women faculty and lecturers with SOE are automatically members. The steering committee, comprised of 15-20 members, specifies several well-defined programmatic goals that the Council will accomplish each academic year. The direction of SWC’s program is based on input from all tenured women who attend the annual SWC spring luncheon. For example, in 2005 –2006, the SWC provided two workshops to assist colleagues in the management of their careers. One workshop sought to increase the visibility of and educate tenured colleagues about the Career Equity Review Process. The second workshop informed untenured colleagues about the intricacies of the Tenure Review Process. These workshops were organized and sponsored by the SWC with support from the Chancellor and Executive Vice Chancellor, and were well attended and received.
Original Mission Statement
“We come together in this regular forum out of concern for the small number of senior women in academic and administrative positions, equity, and the conditions under which we work, the continuing lack of a political presence for senior women, and our often debilitating isolation from one another. We are a group that advocates service to the campus by tenured women faculty, but in ways coordinated to be much more inclusive, and less burdensome for each individual. In that process, we will share information and provide each other the support often lacking in the day-to-day groups where we may be a significant minority.”
2005-2006 Co-chairs Simonetta Falasca- Zamponi
falasca@soc.ucsb.edu
x7090
Cynthia Hudley hudley@education.ucsb.edu
x8324
2006-2007 Co-Chairs Cynthia Hudley (Fall quarter only)
hudley@education.ucsb.edu
x8324
Cathy Busby busby@geol.ucsb.edu
x4068
Jenny Cook-Gumperz cook-gumperz@education.ucsb.edu
x3786 (Winter and Spring quarters)
Useful links
Report of the President's Task Force on Faculty Diversity: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/facultydiversity/report.html
