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[Identification of item], in the Women's Concerns Coalition of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records #40206, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Processed by: University Archives Staff, May 1992, December 1998, February 2008

Encoded by: Johanna Russ, February 2008

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Affirmative action programs--North Carolina.
• American Association of University Professors. UNC-Chapel Hill Chapter.
• Employer-supported day care--North Carolina.
• Mentoring in education--North Carolina.
• Parental leave--North Carolina.
• Sexual harassment in universities and colleges--North Carolina.
• Sick leave--North Carolina.
• Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908--Anniversaries, etc.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Employees.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Societies, etc.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Association for Women Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chancellor's Committee on Day Care.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty Council. Status of Women Committee.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Survey of Women in the Division of Health Affairs.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Women's Concerns Coalition.
• Women college teachers--North Carolina--Social conditions.
• Women in education--North Carolina.
• Women--Employment--North Carolina.

The Women's Concerns Coalition formed in the summer of 1988 in preparation for the installation of Chancellor Paul Hardin. Its purpose was to allow leaders from various campus organizations concerned with women's issues to present their views and priorities to the new chancellor with a unified voice. Following Chancellor Hardin's installation, the group met regularly to discuss university reports and policies pertaining to women. These discussions became the basis for coalition statements and recommendations that were presented to campus administrators. These statements dealt with issues ranging from child care to faculty development to harassment policies.

Among the groups represented in the Coalition were the University Affirmative Action Office, the American Association of University Professors, the Association for Women Faculty, the faculty's Committee on the Status of Women, the Women's Studies Program, the Black Faculty-Staff Caucus, the Chancellor's Advisory Committee, the State Employees' Association, the Office of the Provost, and the ad hoc Sexual Harassment Committee.

Records of the Women's Concerns Coalition include correspondence, meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence and documents related to Cornelia Phillips Spencer Day, correspondence and documents related to the university's medical and family leave policy, and documents presented to the chancellor and academic officers in 1988, including documents about the history of women at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, reports on the current status of women at the university, the findings of the Survey of Women in the Division of Health Affairs, a report from the Chancellor's Committee on Day Care, the sexual harassment policy, the faculty maternity leave policy, and the American Association of University Professors' mentoring plan.