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A Guide to the Records at the Indiana University Archives

Finding aid prepared by James Mladenovic and Philip Bantin

Summary Information

Repository
Indiana University Archives
1320 East Tenth Street
Herman B Wells Library E460
Bloomington, IN 47405-7000
Phone: 812-855-1127
Email: archives@indiana.edu
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/archives

Creator
Indiana University, Bloomington. Office of Affirmative Action.

Title
Indiana University Office of Affirmative Action records, 1972-1995

Collection No.
C549

Extent
12 cubic feet (12 boxes)

Language
Materials are in English

Abstract
The Office of Affirmative Action was created to "provide leadership for the university's commitment and efforts to promote institutional equity and a diverse university community" and to provide "counseling, advice, and information to university administrators, deans, department heads, faculty, staff, and students in their efforts to create a diverse and inclusive learning and work environment free of discrimination and harassment." The collection consists of reports and reviews written by the Office, complaint files, and subject files.

Access Restrictions

Select files and series closed to researchers. These are indicated in the finding aid.

Advance notice required for access to collection.

Administrative History

1964: Civil Rights Act created by U.S. Congress 1965: Executive order 11246 prohibited discrimination on basis of race, color and national origin 1967: Executive order 11375 prohibited discrimination on basis of sex 1970: Office of University Counsel recommends adopting of an affirmative action program 1970: Ad Com and Agenda Committees approved submission to Board of Trustees of an affirmative action plan. It was approved by the Trustees and referred to the Executive Vice President for implementation. 1972: Title VII of the 1964 amended to apply to states, thus subjecting IU to jurisdiction of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. 1972: George Taliaferro appointed as Special Assistant to the President to coordinate IU's affirmative action efforts. 1973: Terry Mumford appointed Associate University Counsel and Special Counsel, Affirmative Action. 1974 June 29: Indiana University Affirmative Action Plan officially approved by the Board of Trustees. 1975: Office of Affirmative Action created; the mission of the office as currently described is to "provide leadership for the university's commitment and efforts to promote institutional equity and a diverse university community" and to provide "counseling, advice, and information to university administrators, deans, department heads, faculty, staff, and students in their efforts to create a diverse and inclusive learning and work environment free of discrimination and harassment."

Arrangement

Collection is organized into three series: Reports and reviews, Complaint files, and Subject files.

Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of three record series: Reports and Reviews, Subject Files, and Complaint Files created or collected by the Indiana University Office of Affirmative Action from 1972-1995. The Reports and Reviews series is further organized into five subseries: Action Plans, Annual Reports, Online Reviews of Graduate Admissions, Compliance Program Reports, and Workforce Reports.

All of the files in the Reports and Reviews series are arranged chronologically. The onsite reviews of graduate programs were all completed in 1979, and are listed by school. The workforce reports are divided into lists by department, name, position or title, and location. The complaint files are arranged alphabetically by name, and the subject files, the smallest series, are arranged alphabetically by folder title.

Several files in the collection are restricted because they contain confidential data about individual faculty or staff. Restricted records include one file from the compliance program reports series, and all files in the onsite review of graduate admissions and complaints series. Researchers who wish to use these files should consult the university archivist to determine if some records in the files might be available.

• Indexing Terms

• The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in IUCAT, the IU Libraries' online catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by searching the catalog using these terms.

• • Names
  • Indiana University, Bloomington. Office of Affirmative Action --Archives.
  • Indiana University, Bloomington. Office of Affirmative Action -- Records and correspondence.
• • Topics
  • Affirmative action programs in education -- Indiana --Bloomington -- History -- Sources.
  • Affirmative action programs -- Indiana -- Bloomington -- History -- Sources.

Related Material

Additional records such as newsletters, annual reports, bulletins, and publications may be accessed in the Archives of Institutional Memory

Archived web sites for this Department may be included in Archive-It

Related photographs may be available in the University Archives Photographs Database

Administrative Information

Folder List

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