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THE DIFFICULTIES OF EXPANSION
“We were in an extraordinary position of both having the will, planning, and capacity for growth in the first half of this decade,” says History Professor William C. Kirby, who oversaw much of the expansion as FAS dean from 2002 to 2006.
But five years later, even through a decade of expansion, the proportions of women and minorities in the faculty as compared with their white male colleagues have changed only slightly. Today, a quarter of the University faculty are women and 17 percent are minorities, according to the 2009 annual report...
Though co-development might overcome obstacles currently facing the Allston expansion, it is a risky proposition, as a large proportion of such efforts at other universities have failed (see story page 45).
She has presided over the largest expansion in financial aid in the history of higher education, but Harvard’s graduate students by and large lack access to the generous financial aid packages that undergraduates receive.