NCSU Athletic Director Willis Casey and Affirmative Action

NCSU Athletic Director Willis Casey and Affirmative Action

Since the early 1970s, all NCSU hiring processes required an affirmative action report, detailing the number of application submissions by sex and race. However, certain departments were more beholden to affirmative action reports than others. Athletic Director Willis Casey could bypass affirmative action processes due to the unique nature of athletic department employment.

Willis R. Casey

"Letter to Lawrence Clark from Athletic Director Willis Casey regarding hiring proceedures of the football team," December 7, 1979, North Carolina State University Director of Athletics Records, Box 7, Folder 3, North Carolina State University Special Collections Research Center, Raleigh, NC. 

1979-12-07

Mandy Benter

NCSU Football, Affirmative Action

I would like to request that you waive affirmative action rules for several assistant football coaches. As you know, we have just hired a new football coach, and he will be interviewing and hiring several assistant coaches. We do not have the usual time lapse to meet the affirmative action time requirement, and still meet our recruiting time table for football.

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