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.