Heightening awareness of crime through email and class announcements is another strategy for dealing with crime on campus. Increasing support for students who are crime victims is another priority. One solution to help victims is to publicize the services offered by the Office of Women's Affairs. The central issue for academic professionals is their invisibility as a group. Strategies to make academic professional issues a priority are to work with the Academic Professional Advisory Committee and form an academic professional subcommittee on the CCSW to focus attention on this group.
Data collection is needed to collect information on the absence of career ladders.
The lack of consolidated policies regarding academic professionals and how to garner the time and resources to remedy this lack is another issue. The following reports are from the UIC faculty, staff, academic professionals and administrators who attended the teleconference in Minnesota. Three priority issues were identified. creating an environment that respects and relishes diversity, creating an environment that supports care of self, family and then job and issues of equity in salary, hiring and benefits. Satisfactory solutions to these issues would be expected to benefit the University by increasing recruitment and retention of faculty and in the creation of an environment which nurtures personal job satisfaction thereby increasing productivity. Voice - All voices are necessary and needed to create a diverse higher education system that is excellent and inclusive for all people.