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Striving for Equity

The series Striving Towards Equality, 1999-2000 (1.0 linear foot), includes a mixture of documents and video materials relating the project to create a videotape history of the AWC. The video materials consist of the 22 original Betacam SP videotapes used to capture individual interviews of those involved with the formation and work of the Academic Women's Caucus as well as university administrators discussing the impact of the AWC on campus. There is also a VHS copy of the final product Striving Toward Equity at the University of Michigan: 25 Years of the Academic Women's Caucus 1975- 2000. Documents in the series include interview transcripts and a set of correspondence between Jean King (former AWC member) and Ruth Barnard, the producer of the program, discussing the handling of the HEW complaint of 1970 within the video. The HEW (Health, Education, and Welfare) complaint was the first to challenge sex discrimination practiced by the University and helped to bring about an eye opening investigation into the University's treatment of women faculty. Striving Toward Equity is described as "a historical depiction of the formation of the Academic Women's Caucus, a group whose members lobbied for the hire and promotion of top female administrators, equitable salaries for female faculty and anti-discrimination policies within the University of Michigan." Interviewees include Lee Bollinger, Nancy Cantor, James Duderstadt, Edie Goldenberg, and Jean L. King.

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Academic Women's Caucus Oral History project

The Academic Women's Caucus Oral History Project series (1 linear foot) includes materials of an oral history project that took place in the summer of 1986. A series of oral histories with the AWC former chairs was conducted to document the history, organizational steps, activities, issues and perceived accomplishments of the AWC. Louis Gage, Anne Martinez, and Peggie Hollingsworth conducted the interviews.

Project background materials include administrative correspondence, proposals, forms and applications, and proposed interview questions. The individual interview files contain interview transcripts and biographical information (some dated 2015). The series also includes eight cassette tapes with interviews. There is no available release for one of the interviews. Three folders contain only biographical information, without interview transcrips and recordings.

Materials in this series were donated to the Bentley Historical Library in 2015.