My two modest proposals. First, I'd like to propose that President Atkinson establish a systemwide goal-and I know goal is a bad word, but again, if we're standing up for Affirmative Action, let's stand up for the word 'goal.' Based on a review of the campus's Affirmative Action plans, it could be something like doubling the number of ladder women faculty by the year 2010. And that is a modest proposal. The Office of the President, probably through some sort of a systemwide task force, should conduct an analysis of the future demand for faculty, by discipline and sub discipline, and estimate the pool of candidates nationally who are expected to be available for faculty positions by sex, ethnicity, and discipline. The Office of the President should identify crucial points in the process from graduate school admission, through tenure, the effects, the composition of the faculty, and then specify lawful programs, best practices, and policies that have demonstrated the capacity to enhance progress in achieving faculty diversity. The President could ask each chancellor to submit a campus plan for achieving this systemwide goal, either directly, through hiring, or in those disciplines where women are few, to increasing the number of women in the Ph.D. pipeline at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Resources will be allocated by the Office of the President to help support campus plans. The chancellors will be held accountable by the President for accomplishing their campus's plans. Each chancellor, EVC, and dean, will demonstrate her or his commitment to faculty diversity by embracing a systemwide goal as the campus goal, and calling for the development of long-range departmental faculty diversity plans, based on the systemwide goal and the Office of the President analyses of the current availability of women in the disciplines.

Department plans will detail how each department will contribute to progress in achieving the goal, through specific outreach efforts to diversify faculty applicant pools, and/or by increasing the number of women in the Ph.D. pipeline. Campus-wide policies and programs will be developed, and resources will be allocated to support department plans. Departments will be held accountable for successfully completing their plans. My first and last proposal. And I'm sorry I'm not going to be around this afternoon to hear discussion of why it won't work.

My second proposal is the Office of the President should establish a systemwide database of dissertation-stage UC graduate students, so that we can more effectively mine our own pool of potential faculty, rather than produce faculty for our peer institutions. I did a quick review of UCSC's 411 active laddering faculty. One-hundred, twenty of them, approximately, I'm not sure if? about 30% received their terminal degrees from UC campus. That may be high, but I will wager that if you go back and do the same review on their campus, you'll find that there's a significant and substantial proportion of your faculty who have terminal degrees from another UC campus. In fact, the study carried out by Assistant Vice President Gene Robles several years ago, determined that a significant proportion of UC faculty, systemwide, had received their terminal degrees from a UC campus. And when the data was broken down by sex and ethnicity, however, it became clear that women and minority UC Ph.D.'s were not hired at the same rate as their white male colleagues. So knowing who's about to come on the market will get us a jump on our competitors.

Thank you.