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...already made a name for herself studying academic tenure and the status of women in higher education for the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). And as a Romance Languages professor she had experienced firsthand discrimination against women in academia...
...after another decade of teaching, Francis joined the staff of AAUP, which studies the state of higher education and advocates for professors nationwide...
Within the organization, Francis worked to bring minority representation to the AAUP. She also helped form the association’s pro-affirmative action positions on events at the time, including the influential Regents of the University of California v. Bakke case in 1978 that set a precedent for using race as one factor in university admissions decisions...
While working full time for the AAUP in Washington during the academic year, Francis reserved her summers for La Granja, Spain, a town north of Madrid, where her mother had founded a summer school for American girls...
Across the nation, faculty salaries rose 2.2 percent in real income in 2001 in what the AAUP called a “fairly substantial increase,” though the AAUP was quick to acknowledge that the survey data did not take into account the recent economic downturn...