LAUC COMMITTEE ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY
1998/99 Annual Report
Submitted by Gabriella Gray, Chair
August 19, 1999

The 1998/99 LAUC Statewide Committee on Cultural Diversity (CDC) met in its entirety on December 18, 1998 at the University of California Office of the President (UCOP) in Oakland. At that meeting the CDC decided that in addition to its charge the Committee would address growing concern among the LAUC constituency regarding the status of the 1996 Report of the Ad Hoc Committee to Review the "Many Voices of Diversity" with Regards to Sexual Orientations Issues. To facilitate this process the CDC asked LAUC President, Kari Lucas, to detail what if any LAUC policies or guidelines existed regarding the submission and mounting of Web pages generated by LAUC statewide committees. In response Kari Lucas produced a document entitled 'LAUC Web Pages: policies, guidelines and procedures'. This document was accepted by the membership at the LAUC 1999 Spring Assembly.

Once the guidelines were in place the CDC pooled its talents and created a Web page that provides links to the text of the 'Many Voices' and 'Ad Hoc' reports. In addition the the CDC put together a short 'History/Chronology' which contains an explanation of the relationship between the two reports and clarifies the current status of the 'Ad Hoc Report'.

The 1998/99 Committee was charged to survey the campuses in regards to local diversity activity. The Web page contains a link to the results of this survey. In keeping with past annual reports the Committee contacted UCOP in May of 1999 and requested current statistics regarding the ethnic breakdown of the LAUC membership. The table below represents data as of October 1998.

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