Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think we made some good progress on them during the winter, but we won't know for sure until it's over and the points are tabulated," he said...
...Zimmerman is Henry Zimmerman '25 of Brookline, Harvard basketball's only season-ticket holder, and a fixture for many years in the dingy confines of the IAB. At halftime of a game this season, Mr. Zimmerman discussed the cagers, delivering a succinct judgment of their progress: "Yeah, they're getting better, but soon they're gonna have to get somewhere." And then Mr. Zimmerman shrugged...
...while the University's affirmative action gains have at the very best been slow, some departments seem to make better progress than others. Surprisingly, it has been and continues to be the more traditionally "women's fields" like history and English which find cause to complain of a lack of qualified candidates. The Biology Department has tenured two women (Hubbard and Turner) while neither history nor English have tenured any. Yet, government statistics reveal that 20 per cent of recent Ph.Ds in history are held by women. According to the recommendation of a faculty committee chaired by Caroline Byrum...
...apparent subjectivity of tenure and promotion criteria allow departments to cloak discrimination by paying only lip service to the search for qualified women (though in Nolan's case no search was even necessary). While standards continue to go unchallenged as somehow objectively correct, the History Department subverts the progress of qualified women further by inconsistently evaluating candidates even given their standards. "There is no question that the history department seriously underutilizes women," Phyllis Keller, Equal Employment Opportunity Officer for the Faculty, said recently. The department's decision to deny promotion to Mary Nolan is an example of the department...
...issue threatens to become an invisible one, but the underlying problem will not so easily disappear. The lack of women in positions of high authority on the Faculty must be pointed out and condemned, repeatedly and vehemently, until concrete progress is made...