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College couples face difficulties in longdistance relationships
Proportion of administrators and tenure/tenure-track/ non-tenure professors per college
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BERCHAM KAMBER THE DAILY ILLINI
She said long-distance relationships face several obstacles not associated with a standard relationship, but stresses having long-distance relationships is a viable option and can be well-maintained through proper communication and trust. For Sydney Trimble, sophomore in Engineering, having a long-distance relationship with her boyfriend from Germany was challenging, and the two eventually broke up. Trimble attributed part of the reason for the breakup as the difficulty in having no physical contact. “There were instances where I cheated on
BY JOSE ZEPEDA CONTRIBUTING WRITER
For many students, coming to college means leaving their home, famEDUC Business ily and friends. For NatAHS Mediaalie Munoz, freshman in LAS, coming to college also means being apart from are required to appoint a her boyfriend, who lives in diversity advocate, docuChicago, for the first time ment good faith efforts to since they got together 11 create a diverse applicant months ago. pool and take online diver“It’s been hard going sity training, a process Das from seeing each other and Elliott said was fair and every day to not seeing unbiased. each other at all,” Munoz The Targets of Opportusaid. nity program also provides Long-distance relafunding support to cover tionships are common the salary of an underrepon campus, especially for resented minority if the first-year students, said search committee selects Suzanne Martinez, clinical them for a position. counselor at the UniversiMat thia s Grosse SEE RELATIONSHIP | 3A ty’s Counseling Center. Perdekamp, head of the Department of Nuclear Physics and member of the DRIVE diversity committee, said the committee is focused on increasing faculty diversity by reducing implicit bias. DRIVE holds workshops certain members of search committees are required to attend and recommends strategies for ensuring diverse applicant pools and reducing bias, including spending more time evaluating each applicant. When Grosse Perdekamp participated in a search committee for the physics department, he said he was ARNAV GUPTA THE DAILY ILLINI dismayed to find the appliAurora Villacorta teaches a samba class to Dena and Jim cant pool was largely white Vernette in Latzer Hall at the University YMCA on Monday. and male. “As far as I can see, there’s no solution that can fix this in two or three years. We have to invest and build the pool,” Grosse Perdekamp said. After contacting a former colleague who directed Grosse Perdekamp to a BY ARNAV GUPTA renovation is going to be CONTRIBUTING WRITER mailing list for female proLatzer Hall, the major fessors in nuclear physThe University YMCA community space in the ics, the department endlaunched a $1.2 million YMCA which has been ed up hiring Anne Sickles, campaign to revamp its preserved since 1937, when physicist and researchhistoric 81-year-old build- it was built,” said Mike er of heavy ion collisions ing and to provide a more Doyle, executive director from Brookhaven National sustainable future for the of the YMCA. Laboratory. organization. The campaign revolves “There are strategies one Although the campaign around three focal points; can pursue to have more was officially announced including renovating the diverse candidates in the to the public a little over building, increasing fundpool,” Grosse Perdekamp two weeks ago, the YMCA ings for programs run by said. “The main problem has already accumulated the YMCA and increasing with it is it takes a lot of $845,000 in pledges from its existing endowment of time. You have to talk to a a majority of the donors. lot of people and write to “The major focus of the SEE YMCA | 3A many people, so it’s important to have at least some people who are committed to pursue diversity (on search committees).” Grosse Perdekamp worries other search committees, some of which receive up to 600 applicants for a single opening, don’t have a sufficient amount of time to go through each application. With men making up 82 percent of the faculty and administration in the ColCorbin take strides Professors share lege of Engineering, Sickin junior season married life les, now an assistant pro-
University faculty lacks diversity ENGINEERING LAS
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82% male 18% female
BY HEATHER SCHLITZ
Even as the University was lauded for admitting a record number of freshmen from underrepresented groups this year, the ranks of faculty and administrators in the eight largest colleges on campus continue to be dominated by men and white people. Though the Office for Access and Equity has implemented many policies to increase diversity, 72 percent of faculty and administrators in the colleges examined are male, and 69 percent are white, as of January 2018. Members of University faculty, leadership and the Diversity Realized at Illinois by Visioning Excellence committee have said there is still progress to be made. Aditi Das, assistant professor in LAS and a woman of Asian heritage, said she has always overcome bias by working harder than the men around her. Now, as a tenure-track faculty member, she still feels she has to publish better papers and produce better work to be taken as seriously as her male colleagues. “I have several female grad students in my lab right now, and I tell them not to worry about what people think about you,” Das said. “Just work hard, and if you produce a good paper, nobody can dismiss you. Good work speaks for itself.” Das’ comments were mirrored by other female faculty and women of color who say they’re underestimated by students and colleagues from other universities. They say they are put at a disadvantage after having children and have to work harder to achieve the same level of success as their male colleagues. With men currently making up 74 percent of the faculty and administration in the Gies College of Business, Brooke Elliott, head of the accountancy department, praised the college’s efforts to diversify faculty, but she said she wished the demographics looked different. “It is difficult to navigate a career, to move from assistant to associate to full, and also to move into adminis-
60% male 40% female
ENGINEERING
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
FAA
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65%male white 82% 18% female
71% white 60% male
ACES 65% white
FAA 71% white
40% female
64% male 36% female
60% male 40% female
ACES
FAA
78% white
78% white
64% male 36% female
60% male 40% female
BUSINESS
AHS
78% white
78% white
74% male 26% female
40% male 60% female
BUSINESS
AHS 76% white
63% white
74% male 26% female
$1.2M YMCA campaign promotes sustainability
40% male 60% female
EDUC
MEDIA 76% white
63% white 32% male
52% male 48% female
68% female
74% white EDUC
70% white MEDIA
32% male 68% female
52% male 48% female
74% white
70% white
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tration when you have no female role models,” Elliot said. “There’s never been a female head of accountancy for our 100-year history;
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I’m the first. I think implicit bias probably did play a role.” Sea rch commit tees tasked with hiring faculty
Though the College of Education and the College of Applied Health Sciences have higher percentages of women faculty, these two colleges represent only a sliver of the total faculty and administrators in the University.
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