YALE GRADUATE EMPLOYEES and Students Organization (GESO) released a report in March stating that discrimination has kept women and minorities out of high-level positions in Ivy League schools, and specifically identifying University President Lawrence H. Summers’s “combative tenure” as one issue that has furthered such discrimination.

According to GESO—which failed in its attempts to organize graduate student unions at Yale last year—the solution to the problem of shuffling women and minorities into nontenure-track positions lies primarily in forming stronger unions of graduate students and professors.

The report, entitled “The (Un)Changing Face of the Ivy League,” analyzes trends in diversity among staff at all eight Ivy League universities from 1993 to 2003, using statistics from the U.S. Department of Education. Shana L. Redmond, a graduate student in African-American and American Studies at Yale and an author of the report, said that GESO’s Accessibility and Diversity committee began researching this report last year, to follow up on complaints graduate students had voiced about discrimination in hiring.

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