J school yet to hire full-time woman prof
CHRIS DOLGENOW
Of the Emerald
The School of Journalism has
yet to hire a full-time woman for its
faculty. One woman teaches
part-time, but Dean Galen Rarick
says the department hopes to add
a full-time woman after concluding
the present search.
Rarick says the low number of
women applicants for recent fac
ulty positions and the high per
centage (about 50 percent) of vis
iting female assistant professors,
prove the department does not
discriminate. The school’s faculty
reflects the national situation, he
explains, since roughly 32 percent
of faculty appointments in jour
nalism nationwide are held by
women.
But those statistics do not re
flect a society composed of more
women than men, says Norma
McFadden, assistant compliance
officer for Affirmative Action.
“That's why we’re in operation.”
Rarick says the school supports
this policy.
“Other things being equal, we'd
probably go with the female (when
hiring),” he says. “But we re going
to pick the person who’s best qual
ified."
Women usually have less ex
perience than their male com
petitors, Rarick says. But he
thinks that will change in the com
ing years. The two men hired for
the last open positions were
selected from a 21-4 male to
female ratio of applicants for one
position, and from a 9-2 ratio for
the other.
Those positions required “an
unusual combination of skills and
experience,” Rarick says. The
present openings for an assistant
and associate professor with
more ordinary skills should attract
a broader range of applicants, and
more women, he adds.
To comply with affirmative ac
tion goals for filling visiting profes
sorships, the school has em
ployed women for 33 to 50 percent
of those appointments for the pas
three years, Rarick says.
“Women’s situation in jour
nalism has improved. Of course
affirmative action has had some
thrust in that direction, but I’ve
never seen any indication that the
department was dragging its
feet.”
The school’s one woman fa
culty member, part-time Assistanl
Prof. Mary Hartman, agrees thai
the school is doing its best to meel
hiring goals.
“The department is very con
scious of affirmative action,” she
says. “They want the best people
to teach these students."
“I’m the only woman here,
which may look like women are
being discriminated against, bul
they are very definitely not.”
Like Rarick, Hartman would like
to see more women apply. She
accounts for a male-dominated
faculty by pointing to the lack of
female applicants rather than the
school’s policy.
“If they (the school) didn’t com
ply with the law, they have AA on
their- backs. But they can’t hire
women if they don't apply,” Hart
man says.
To attract more women applic
ants, Rarick distributed a
memorandum to the associate
professor search committee, ad
dressing the importance of com
pliance with set affirmative action
goals to hire at “least one woman
or minority for the full-time faculty
by the start of the 1980-81
academic year.”
In addition, he notified female
dominated scholastic publications
of the search.
But despite those measures,
the majority of applicants are still
likely to be men, Rarick says, a
fact he attributes to high demand
for qualified female faculty
throughout the country and an in
creased interest on the part of
women entering journalism in pro
fessional careers rather than in
teaching.
However, Hartman attributes
the lack of female applicants to
more fundamental factors.
No matter how liberated the
woman, she says, raising a family
and working as a professor is "ex
tremely difficult.”
"Only since I’Ve taken this job
have I realized how much time it
takes to do both jobs well.” Hart
man says she falls into the ranks
of women who do not try for full
time positions because “she just
couldn’t keep up with it.”
That barrier is a common one,
McFadden asserts. “Many
women find it hard to balance ev
erything they see must be done.”
And though Hartman is the only
female in the School of Jour
nalism, she says "it’s too darned
early” for affirmative action to say
what the optimum ratio should be.
"Affirmative action is a very
slow process of correcting a situa
tion. We have to be working at it
now so another generation will
reap the benefits.”
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