Subject: Senate EOC Draft Resolution

Hello everyone,

Thank you again to everyone who attended November's Equal Opportunity
Committee meeting.  Thanks also to Senator Markowitz, who has completed
the first draft of our resolution on our charge concerning Hispanic and
Latino faculty and administrators.  The resolution is attached below.

As we discussed, a few of you are working on a 1-2 page statement which
will serve as background and as a report to accompany our resolution to
the Senate.  If you can get a draft of that to me before our next meeting,
I will circulate it to this list.

In the meantime please send comments, additions, etc to wadia@andromeda
and tderosa@eden and we will try to incorporate all of them into the
resolution.

Then we will meet on Friday, January 24, 2003, probably around 11:00am or
so in the RSC to come to an agreement on a final version which will then
be presented to the Executive Committee in February, and will hopefully be
presented at February's Senate meeting.

Tom DeRosa
EOC co-chair
Executive Committee member

Whereas people of Latino/a/Hispanic background are a large. growing, and
vital part of the population, economy, and cultural life of New Jersey
and the nation:

Whereas people of Latino/a/Hispanic background have long experienced
discrimination in education, employment, and housing, as recognized by
United States federal Civil Rights laws, the federal Civil Rights
Commission and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and state and
local Civil Rights laws and agencies in New Jersey:

Whereas Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey, has long
stated its commitment to implement affirmative action policies of
inclusion in its recruitment and retention of students and its hiring
and promotion of faculty and staff, in accordance with both the spirit
and letter of federal and state Civil Rights laws:

Be it resolved that the Rutgers University Senate, representing the
Rutgers University community of students, faculty and administration
call upon the administration to acknowledge and take action to redress
the severe under-representation of people of Latino/a/Hispanic
background among tenured senior faculty and upper and middle level
administrative personnel:

Be it further resolved that the Rutgers University Senate call upon
administration and faculty and staff dealing with issues of student
advising and student life to actively address issues of recruitment and
retention of undergraduate and graduate students of Latino/a/Hispanic
background:

Be it further resolved that in accordance with these goals the Rutgers
University Senate call upon the Rutgers administration to establish the
academic year 2003-2004 as Latino/a/Hispanic faculty, staff, and student
recruitment and retention year, as part of developing a 5 year strategic
plan to recruit and retain Latino/a/Hispanic administrators, faculty,
staff, and students throughout the fabric of the university and
specifically to integrate Latino/a/Hispanic faculty, administrators, and
staff into all echelons of the university:

Be it further resolved that in accordance with these policies a position
of  Vice President for Inclusion and Diversity be established and given the
necessary funding and support to supervise the development and
implementation of the strategic five year plan.