[URPE] Job Ad Censorship by AEA

[Stephanie Seguino]

Dear URPE members:

The Economics Department at the University of Vermont placed an ad for a 
tenure track faculty in JOE at the end of September. JOE edited this ad 
(without any notice), deleting the latter half of the last sentence, in 
particular the phrase that the Department "welcomes applications from 
women  and underrepresented ethnic, racial and cultural groups and from 
people with disabilities." (To see 
ad,  http://www.aeaweb.org/joe/0610d/html/joe193.html).

When we queried AEA on this, John Siegfried, Director of JOE, responded 
that that phrase was edited out because it is discriminatory, and indicated 
that AEA has a policy to not publish advertising that discriminates on the 
basis of race, sex, color, religion, and sexual preference. He has 
therefore at this time refuses to reinstate the entire ad. Our lawyer has 
reviewed this ad and indicates that this ad is in no way discriminatory. We 
are now considering our response.

I am therefore writing to the URPE listserve to inquire as to how URPE or 
academic institutions may have or are responding to this position of the 
AEA. Please contact me directly with your comments at: 
<mailto:stephanie.seguino at uvm.edu>stephanie.seguino at uvm.edu.

Thanks very much.

Best, Stephanie Seguino


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Stephanie Seguino
Associate Professor, Department of Economics
Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
438 College St.
Burlington, VT 05405-4160
Tel. 802.656.0187
FAX: 802.656.4529
Email: Stephanie.Seguino at uvm.edu 
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