Monday, October 22, 2012

Timeline of Warren's Minority Claim

1977 to 1978 - Taught at Rutgers University

1978 to 1983 - Taught at University of Houston 

1981 to 1987 - University of Texas (Austin), personnel records listed her as white

From the Boston Globe, "Warren’s employment document at the University of Texas allowed her to check multiple boxes specifying “the racial category or categories with which you most closely identify.” The options included “American Indian or Alaskan Native,” but she chose only white."

1986 - Listed herself as a minority in the American Association of Law Schools directory

From the Washington Post, "Warren first listed herself as a minority in the Association of American Law Schools Directory of Faculty in 1986, the year before she joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She continued to list herself as a minority until 1995, the year she accepted a tenured position at Harvard Law School."

1987 to 1992 - Taught at University of Pennsylvania

1992 to 1993 - Taught at Harvard Law School as visiting professor

1993 - Harvard behind in diversity goals

From The Crimson, "As the University winds up a plan launched in 1988 to promote diversity in its faculty and staff, officials express disappointment about their progress."

1993 - Harvard minority student groups issue demands

From the Crimson, "The panelists addressed several of the issues raised by the protesters, including Harvard's response to Mansfield's remarks, the lack of minority faculty and the absence of Asian-American representation on the panel."

1993 - Listed in the article "Women of Color in Legal Academia: A Biographic and Bibliographic Guide"

From Breibart, "An article, “Women of Color in Legal Academia: A Biographic and Bibliographic Guide,” which was published by the Harvard Women’s Law Journal (since renamed the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender) in its Spring 1993 edition (Volume 16), lists Warren as one of approximately 250 “women of color” in legal academia."

1993 - Offered permanent position at Harvard (turned down)

From The Crimson, "Visiting Professor of Law Elizabeth Warren, one of the two female scholars offered tenure by Harvard Law School this year, said yesterday that she will not accept the post.

Warren, who holds a tenured position at the University of Pennsylvania, said that her decision was based on "personal reasons." "

1993 to 1995 - Taught at University of Pennsylvania

1994 - University of Pennsylvania, received a teaching award, designated as a minority

From the Boston Globe, "The University of Pennsylvania, where Warren taught at the law school from 1987 through 1995, listed her as a minority in a “Minority Equity Report” posted on its website. The report, published in 2005, well after her departure, included her as the winner of a faculty award in 1994. Her name was highlighted in bold, the designation used for minorities in the report."

March 1994 - Student Protests at Harvard demanding more minority faculty hires

From The Crimson, "Beginning on March 5, the Saturday of Junior Parents Weekend ,the Asian American Association, Raza and other minority groups launched an all-out assault, complete with protests, petitions and postering. one of their primary goals: to increase minority faculty hiring."

and


"A protester's sign on March 5 displays Harvard's "report card," giving the administration an "A" for "evasion" and an "F" for "action" on the issue of minority faculty hiring The underlying message is that Harvard's facultyis not diverse due to institutionalized racism and stubborn, reactionary administrators."

1995 - Accepted a permanent position at Harvard Law School

From The Crimson, "University of Pennsylvania legal scholar Elizabeth Warren has been appointed the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, University officials announced yesterday.

Warren, who taught at the law school as a visiting professor during the spring of 1993, said yesterday the offer had been available since that time, but added that family circumstances had kept her from accepting the position until now."

1995 - Stopped listing herself as minority in the American Association of Law Schools directory

From the Washington Post, "Warren first listed herself as a minority in the Association of American Law Schools Directory of Faculty in 1986, the year before she joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She continued to list herself as a minority until 1995, the year she accepted a tenured position at Harvard Law School."

1996 - Touted as Native American in The Crimson

From The Crimson, "Although the conventional wisdom among students and faculty is that the Law School faculty includes no minority women, Chmura said Professor of Law Elizabeth Warren is Native American."

1997 - Touted as Harvard Law's first woman of color in Fordham Law Review

From Politico, " "There are few women of color who hold important positions in the academy, Fortune 500 companies, or other prominent fields or industries," the piece says. "This is not inconsequential. Diversifying these arenas, in part by adding qualified women of color to their ranks, remains important for many reaons. For one, there are scant women of color as role models. In my three years at Stanford Law School, there were no professors who were women of color. Harvard Law School hired its first woman of color, Elizabeth Warren, in 1995." "

Those are my thoughts for today.
Thanks for reading.





copyright 2012, Polly's Granddaughter - TCB

No comments:

Post a Comment

Your comments are welcome!