Dr. Stacy was one of the first women to receive tenure at Berkeley’s College of Chemistry and her interest in and commitment to equity issues on our campus has spanned her career at UCB. Professor Stacy’s post as Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Equity gives her an opportunity to focus her concerns on increasing justice in retention and recruitment issues which affect gender and racial equity for UCB’s faculty. She has served as Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Equity for the past two years.

“Diversity is an integral part of excellence. If we are to attract the best and the brightest then we need to draw on all the talented minds, not just from a few select groups. One only needs to look around at the faculty to realize that its composition does not reflect the diversity of our society, or even the diversity of our students. My post is critical in assisting our faculty and our leadership in using data to construct new paradigms for promoting greater diversity and equity in our faculty.”

Professor Stacy recently served as co-investigator of the Faculty Family-Friendly Edge, a Sloan Foundation research project with Mary Ann Mason, dean of the graduate division.

Dr. Stacy’s career in Chemistry, which spans more than 25 years, has resulted in a significant number of prestigious national awards.

Sheila O'Rourke joined the Office of Faculty Equity in March 2008 in her role as Assistant Provost, Academic Affairs, after nine years at the UC Office of the President working with system wide faculty diversity and gender equity programs and policies.  Sheila is happy to be back at Berkeley, having served as the Director of Academic Compliance and Assistant Vice Provost from 1995 to 1999.  She is also the director of the system wide President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and teaches a freshman seminar on civil rights law in higher education.

Prior to joining the University of California, she was a civil rights attorney for the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights in Region IX, the director of several non-profit service agencies, and a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School.

She has a J.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and a B.A. from Stanford University in Human Biology and Public Policy.