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Friday, December 7,1973
University Daily Kansan
KU Employment Review Is Overdue
By ELISE RITTER
Korean Staff Reporter
The Department of Health Education and Welfare (HEW) hasn't yet sent the Office of Affirmative Action the results of a review of KU employment practices that was conducted last February, Shirley Gilham, said of Affirmative Action, said yesterday.
HEW was expected to notify the Al-
firmative Action office of its findings by
June 16.
The review was made to determine whether the University of Kansas, a federal contractor, is in compliance with federal rules concerning employment practices.
HEW officials spent about one week here interviewing University employees and obtaining statistics on the labor force from Affirmative Action. Gilham said,
They have since analyzed the situation, she said. The expected letter of findings will tell whether KU is deficient in living skills and how it relates to the status of racial minorities and women.
After KU receives the letter, HEW will return to the University to discuss its findings and how KU can bring its practices into compliance, Gilham said.
She said one factor that may have slowed the findings was that the Association of Mexican-American Students (AMAS) talked to J.L. Thomas, contract compliance chief of HEW at the Kansas City, Mo., regional office, a few weeks ago about the
status of Mexican-American students at KU.
HEW will review AMAS' grievances to see whether any information can be added to the report.
Affirmative Action is also compiling goals and timetables that are to be established by all departments and offices of the University.
KU is required by HEW to submit goals and timetables. KU receives more than $12 million annually in federal research money. The failure to submit goals and timetables
would result in federal funds being withheld or withdrawn, Gilham said.
The goals and timetables analyze the University's work force and determine the percentage of minorities and women. The eight classifications of jobs taken into account are professional, technicians, office and clerical, skilled craftsmen, semi-skilled craftsmen, service workers and laborers. Gilham said one goal was to hire more
If KU employs a smaller percentage of
women and minorities than is available in the labor pool, Giham said, KU must establish goals to hire them in whatever categories they are underutilized.
"This isn't a rigid quota, but a goal or standard towards which we've expected to go."
KU won't be penalized if it fails to hire the
total amount, if it proves it made an effort.
The findings will be reviewed by various affirmative action committees during FOE.
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He said he had talked to people in the physical plant department, the department of engineering and the department of geology about people from those departments who could fill the part time post, but no specific names had been suggested yet.
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