Word: deanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...things that is not supposed to happen here since HEW accepted Harvard's plan is a practice called direct hiring, by which someone hires a person for a non-teaching position--anything from a secretarial post to a deanship--without first listing the opening with the Personnel Office. The idea is that people looking for a job can then know about the opening and apply for it, and that Personnel can, in the words of the affirmative action plan, "identify minority persons and women with the requisite skills for the position in question." If you believe the affirmative action plan...
Rubins got his job through Crooks, who was master of Dudley House when Rubins was a Dudley undergraduate. Last year Rubins was Crooks's assistant for cultural affairs, and this year Crooks recreated the then-defunct deanship and put Rubins in the post. Asked what his job entails, Rubins replies, "Let's see, what's on my desk right now? I'm going over the rules for the chess and bridge tournaments. I'm looking at a list of proctors, and working on publicity for the animation course. There's some material on our arts contests here too. Everything here...
...known, is not off the ground yet, but it has clearly become Rosovsky's pet project. He plans to work on it all summer and, with his lightened duties, next year as well. If all goes as planned, the committee's work will be what Rosovsky's deanship will be remembered for after budgetary hassles and organizational problems and new calendars are long forgotten...
...advocacy is not generally public; instead of sitting in Fay House in the Radcliffe Yard and delivering speeches about the people in University Hall, she goes over to U Hall and talks to the deans herself. For example: Dean Rosovsky decided this spring to create a new deanship with supervisory power over all undergraduate education and administration, to be titled "associate dean of the Faculty for Harvard College." Horner convinced him to change the title to "associate dean of the Faculty for Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges," and before the announcement of the appointment of Francis M. Pipkin, professor of Physics...
Horner considers her deanship--she is dean of Radcliffe College under Rosovsky as well as being Radcliffe's president--crucial to the implementation of equality, because it brings her in close touch with the process of educating the women Radcliffe has admitted. "It's not enough to just admit students and then let the Faculty of Arts and Sciences take them over," she says. "When I was appointed I asked that my deanship be Faculty of Arts and Sciences-related. I sit on the Faculty Council; sitting with the policy-making board of the Faculty is very important...