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Female faculty percentage low
Recent report shows
several departments
are short on women
By Matthew Waite
Senior Reporter
Elizabeth Waiter-Shea says being
part of a male- dominated field doesn’t
bother her.
“I’ve been going though the sci
ences and that is typical,” she said.
“I’m just accustomed to having more
men than women.”
Waiter-Shea, a UNL professor of
agricultural meteorology and guest
faculty member in the department of
biological systems engineering, is
listed as one of 14 faculty members in
agricultural meteorology. In biologi
cal systems engineering, she is one of
48.
The recent release of a report from
the Chancellor’s Commission on the
Status of Women shows that the Uni
versity of Nebraska is lagging behind
other universities in hiring women
faculty.
The report states that in 1993-94,
17.7 percent of faculty at the Univer
sity ofNebraska-Lincoln were women.
University records show that areas
with large gaps between the number
of men and women are mostly in the
science areas.
Administrators in the sciences said
the number of female professors in
that area was low and recruiting was
difficult.
William Splinter, interim dean of
the College of Engineering and Tech
nology and emeritus professor of bio
logical systems engineering, said that
right now, there were few women in
the biological sciences.
More women professors across the
nation will earn Ph.D.’s in the next
five to 10 years, Splinter said.
For now, Splinter said, the college
is actively seeking the female faculty
available, Splinter said.
“Nationally, there just aren’t that
many (women professor candidates),”
he said. “I could probably count them
on one hand.”
However, Walter-Shea said, times I
are changing.
When she was going through sec
ondary school, the sciences were not
presented as an option. She said that
may be a reason why few women were
in the sciences.
In the past few years, more female
faculty members have come to sci
ence departments at the university,
she said. Walter-Shea said more young
women were getting interested in sci
ence.
“There’s more of a public aware
ness now,” she said. “The young girls
are becoming aware that this is an
option to them.”
The study shows that areas in the
arts, humanities and teaching had
smaller gaps between the number of
men and women.
Specific areas with small gaps in
cluded English and sociology in the
College of Arts and Sciences and
educational psychology in the Teach
ers College, all with about a 2-1 ratio.
Administrators in these areas said
history was the primary reason for
more women in these fields.
David Moshman, chairman of the
educational psychology department,
which has 10 women on the 22-mem
ber faculty, said the areas of educa
tion and psychology traditionally had 1
more women.
Currently, the number of men and 1
women in those fields is equal, i
Moshman said. i
Some areas showing the largest
gaps were the math department in the
College of Arts and Sciences and
agronomy in the Institute of Agricul
ture and Natural Resources, both with
a 13-1 ratio.
Administrators in those areas said
the ratios would shrink with recent
changes in hiring practices and in
higher education.
Jim Lewis, chairman of the math
department, said that in the early
1970s, only 5 to 8 percent of Ph.D.’s
in math were awarded to women. In
the past few years, he said, that num
ber has jumped to 25 percent, up from
a decade of staying at 20 percent.
—
Female faculty at UNL.
■ In 1993-94,17.7 percent of
the faculty at UNL were
women.
■ Areas showing the largest
gaps between the number of
men and women faculty
members include the math
and agronomy departments,
both with ratios of 13-1.
Biological systems
engineering has a
male-to-female faculty ratio of
48-1.
■ Areas showing the smallest
gaps include the arts,
humanities and teaching.
English, sociology and
educational psychology all
have male-to-female faculty
ratios of 2-1.
Source: Chancellor’s Commission on
the Status of Women at UNL
Lewis said his department, which
las three women out of 39 tenured
"acuity, had been trying to increase
he number of women available for
lire by actively seeking female gradu
itestudents. Fifty percent of the gradu
ite students in the department are
women, he said.
Seven years ago, Lewis said, the
department started actively seeking
op women faculty. He said 30 to 40
percent of job offers in the depart
nent went to women. * -
Brian Foster, dean of the College
af Arts and Sciences, said, however,
that large changes in faculty numbers
were slow because only a small num
ber of faculty were replaced each year.
Universities want faculty members to
stay, he said.
“You wouldn’t want to have the
faculty turning over every five years,”
Foster said. “You’d have chaos.”
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Employers should be careful
to screen immigrant applicants
By Paula Lavigne
Senior Reporter
Nebraska’s low level of unemployment is
drawing illegal aliens from Central America,
and the numbers are growing, say Immigration
and Naturalization Service officials.
Although INS raids, such as the one at the
Excel plant in Schuyler last weekend, try to
keep the numbers down, INS District Director
Dean Hove said tracking illegal aliens was
hard because they used assumed names and
fake documents.
An illegal alien is someone who resides in
the United States without authorization.
Proposals such as California’s Proposition
187, which would deny welfare and education
to illegal aliens, and increased border patrol
are being used to slow the growing illegal
\ immigration problem nationwide.
About 1,000 illegal aliens reside in Ne
m braska, he said, with the majority from Mexico
M and other Central American countries.
If A small percentage of illegal aliens also are
composed of foreign students who overstay
their visas, he said.
Most illegal aliens find work in meatpacking
plants or other food-service industries—jobs
that are in abundance in central and eastern
Nebraska, he said.
INS agents are working with employers to
prevent hiring illegal aliens, Hove said.
“We want to have employers state that they’re
not interested in hiring people who are not
legally able to work,” he said. “We have to get
the message out that job opportunities in Ne
braska should be reserved for U.S. citizens.”
Citizenship may be hard to get, he said.
Someone who wanted to immigrate legally to
the United States would have to start by apply
ing with the American Consular’s office in his
home country.
An immigrant has to achieve resident alien
status — permanent residency — before be
coming a U.S. citizen. Nebraska approves about
2,000 immigrant visas a year.
Resident aliens are given a green card,
which also grants them the rights of citizens,
except the rights to vote and hold public office.
1 People wishing to immigrate who have a
“We have to get the message
out that job opportunities in
Nebraska should be reserved
for U.S. citizens. ”
■
DEAN HOVE
INS district director
spouse or other relative who is a U.S. citizen or
are guaranteed employment once they enter the
United States have better chances, Hove said.
“If you’re just wanting to immigrate,” he
said, “it’s not that easy.”
Establishing permanent residence involves
several years of processing documents and
cutting through red tape,
Kevin Smith, an assistant political science
professor at UNL, immigrated to the United
States about 15 years ago from Bambury, En
gland, as a resident alien with no intention of
becoming a U.S. citizen.
“I have an English soul, and I shouldn’t give
that up,” he said. “I’m just British. So sue me.”
Smith said achieving resident alien status
was “a huge bureaucratic hassle with lots of
hoops you have to jump through.”
The INS officers are swamped, he said, and
the agency has too much to do for the resources
allotted to it.
Smith’s application was processed without
many complications because he said he had
“all his bureaucratic ducks in a row.”
He had relatives who were U.S. citizens, his
father’s employment skills were in demand,
the United States and the United Kingdom had
Close ties, and there was no language barrier.
“I’m not blowing up the World Trade Cen
ter,” he said. “But for a lot of people, it’s a huge
hassle. And for a country based on immigrants,
that raises a few questions.”
