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Report blasts Ivies for hiring few women.(Brief Article)

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Ivy League schools are making minimal progress in hiring women and minorities, according to a new report issued by a union of Yale University students.

The report blames the nation's elite schools for failing in "one of their primary missions as institutions in higher education: the promotion of social equality."

"The (Un)Changing Face of the Ivy League" reports:

* Women are more likely than men to wind up in non-tenure track positions.

* In 2003, Ivy League campuses hired 433 new professors in tenure-track jobs, but only 8 were Hispanic and 14 were black.

* From 1993 to 2003, the percentage of Hispanic professors in the Ivies remained at about 1%, and black professors stayed at 2%.

Gahodery Rodriguez, graduate teacher at Yale and coauthor of the report said, "As a Latina woman, I am trusted ...

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