On October 8, 1971, President Edgar Shannon wrote in a memo to Vice President and Provost David Shannon the importance of securing new faculty members "scholars and teachers who are also women or members of racial minorities." Three days later, the provost shared the president's memo with the academic deans, reaffirming the importance and urgency of this policy, noting that the recruitment of "promising and distinguished female and black [sic] scholars and scientists... requires special ingenuity and initiative beyond the use efforts and channel for recruitment - and it is not clear to me that this kind of effort is being made in all departments." 

October 1971

ECBCHNI, UVA SON Collection, Affiliations: President's Office Box 1

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