Word: first
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Derek C. Bok still runs things from his Mass. Hall vantage point, and first-year students still live in the Yard. The much-vaunted house system and Core Curriculum are still in place, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences still has but a handful of women and minority professors...
Three years after Alan M. Brinkley was denied tenure, the History Department tenured a professor from inside its own ranks for the first time in two decades--one. The once-uniformly white male Harvard Corporation named a woman to its ranks--one. Harvard named a woman--one--to the position of a University vice president...
What Rosovsky recognized is that Harvard does not need to change. Harvard can simply wait. The governing boards do not need to accede to anyone's demands. In four years, the crusading first-year activists of today will have graduated, and their successors will have moved on to fresh territory. The disgruntled associate professors denouncing the inequities of the University's tenure system will have fallen victim to it, and moved on to more prestigious jobs at less prestigious institutions...
...MICHELE J. ORZA '84, Harvard's first (and at that time only) Women's Studies concentrator, on being referred to as an "isolated incident...
...Former Corporation member ANDREW HEISKELL, commenting on Judith Richards Hope who in 1989 became the first woman to sit on the 339-year-old governing board...