Word: finality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Convinced that a strong public school system is just as important to their children as it is to blacks, local white leaders began more than a month ago to prepare their city for the shock of final desegregation. A loosely knit committee of prominent whites met with the city's whites, urging them to support the public schools rather than abandon them. School administrators worked through the Christmas holiday to shift classrooms and equipment, and persuaded all of the system's 186 teachers to stay on the job. Even stu dents joined in the effort to pre serve...
...politicking during this last stage of reform was intense. Student leaders (who participated in the final faculty debates) met in midnight strategy sessions, and got together another successful rally in support of their proposals. The faculty stayed in session three consecutive days (classes were canceled the second day), and, on May 8, voted...
That fall, Brown's new president. Ray L. Heffper, detailed a special subcommittee of the faculty's Curriculum Committee to begin considering reform of the undergraduate program while Magaziner and his co-workers gave final from to their year-long efforts...
Magaziner's group released the 450 page manuscript of its final report in February, 1968. David Riesman, Harvard's Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, would later call it "a Herculean effort, an impressive document." But few members of the faculty took notice. The special faculty sub-committee appointed by President Heffner met twice a week during much of the spring, but made no recommendations. In April, the Brown Daily Herald reported that the "vast majority of the faculty was unaware" of the report...
...final consideration is that the college is harming the Cambridge community by forcing Radcliffe seniors to compete in the Cambridge housing market, further increasing demand and accelerating rent increases. This is particularly unfair to those Cambridge residents who are not affiliated with Harvard or Radcliffe, but must nevertheless suffer the consequences of their decisions regarding student housing...