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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the University Women for Affirmative Action Records #40202, University Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Affirmative action programs--North Carolina.
• Discrimination in higher education--North Carolina.
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• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Societies, etc.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Students.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. University Women for Affirmative Action.
• Women college teachers--North Carolina--Social conditions.
• Women in education--North Carolina.
• Women--Employment--North Carolina--History.

University Women for Affirmative Action (UWAA) was organized on 27 February 1973 in response to the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Affirmative Action findings that discriminatory practices in hiring and promotion appeared to be widespread on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The goals of the organization were to work against discriminatory hiring and promotion practices, to work to equalize salary and fringe benefit levels, and to promote the organization of a comprehensive University-sponsored day care facility for children of University employees and students. The UWAA was organized into five caucuses: (1) faculty, (2) EPA non-faculty employees, (3) SPA personnel, (4) graduate students, and (5) undergraduate students. Representatives of each caucus formed a steering committee, which selected the coordinator and other officers. By mid-1974, UWAA membership had declined to the point that only the steering committee remained active. Functions of the UWAA had been assumed by the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Affirmative Action and the faculty Committee on the Role and Status of Women.

Records of University Women for Affirmative Action (UWAA) include minutes of meetings, attendance lists, correspondence, publicity material, and other documents.