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...complaint against the GSD, dated July 1. 1971, was a class or group action. I initiated it, that is all. Detailed investigation by HEW over many months resulted in confirming discrimination as charged. Specific remedial action is required, set out in eight points...
...HEW released a nine-point report that calls for the University to establish "goals and timetables" and "standards and criteria" to increase the representation of women on the GSD faculty...
...HEW first began its investigation of the GSD in July 1971 after receiving a complaint from Franziska P. Hosken, a 1944 alumna of the School. Hosken contended that two applications to the GSD in 1970 and 1971 were ignored, although her qualifications made her eligible for several teaching positions...
Although the University is still negotiating the affirmative action plan with HEW--there is considerable disagreement over "goals and timetables"--HEW says the GSD inadvertantly established a written criteria when Kilbridge released a statement detailing the reasons Hosken wasn't hired. Robert Randolph, head of the HEW investigating team, said this week that HEW will use Kilbridge's letter as the GSD's temporary written criteria for hiring women...
...might stay on federal bills, and let legislators know where we stand," Schmidt says. "We might write letters or see people involved in the activities... We try to maintain fairly close contact with committees involved in education, the staffs and parts of HEW." But Schmidt stressed that the large bulk of such contact consisted of "information gathering." and that when Harvard's views were presented to officials, it almost always came in response to queries. "'Lobbyist' has bad connotations--cigars, broads, booze," Schmidt said. "In that sense, we're not lobbyists...