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University Increases
Women In Faculty

Women constitute
approximately one-eighth of
the full-time faculty members
at the University and
constituted nearly one-fourth
of the total increase in
full-time faculty members for
the past school year, according
to a study by the University's
Administrator of Equal
Opportunity Programs.

The number of women in
the 1,283-member full-time
faculty rose from 131 during the
1971-72 school year to 155
during the 1972-73 school year,
according to a study prepared
by Paul Saunier Jr. for deans
about academic administrators.
The figures represent an
increase in the percentage of
women holding full-time
faculty positions from 11.2 per
cent for 1971-72 to 12.1 per cent
for 1972-73, Mr. Saunier notes.

"For the first time more
than 100 women in the
full-time faculty were in
faculties other than the
47-member School of Nursing
faculty, which once employed
the great majority of female
faculty members," Mr. Saunier
says.

The 1972 increase in the
numbers of part-time faculty
members showed an even
greater rise in the employment
of women. The increase of 44
in part-time faculty included 17
women, or 39 per cent of the
total increase of part-time
faculty to 152, Mr. Saunier
says.