Diversity and the

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Special committees and task forces appointed within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and other colleges across campus at Iowa State University have produced numerous reports and recommendations regarding issues of diversity over the past few decades. However, only the most recent such reports are easily accessible and/or online:

• "A Report on the Status of Women in the College of Agriculture: Faculty, Graduate and Undergraduate Students, and Professional and Scientific Staff."  Released May 2000 by the University Committee on Women.  Available on the UCW Web site: www.public.iastate.edu/~ucw/Records/Reports/reports.html.
  
• "Status of Women at Iowa State University."  Released August 2002 by a Task Force on Data Analysis under the direction of the University Committee on Women, chaired by Jacquelyn Litt.  Available on the UCW Web site: www.public.iastate.edu/~ucw/Records/Reports/reports.html.
  
• "Report on Women in Leadership at Iowa State." Released May 2003 by a subcommittee of the Women's Leadership Consortium (Susan Carlson, contact person). Available on the Provost Office Web site: www.provost.iastate.edu/fad/diversity.html
  
• "Taskforce on the Recruitment and Retention of Women and Minority Faculty Report." Released May 2003.  Taskforce chaired by Jacquelyn Litt.  Available on the Provost Office Web site: www.provost.iastate.edu/fad/diversity.html