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Commissioned last spring following a Black Students Association request for such a study, the Faculty's report on "The Recruitment of Minority and Women Faculty Members" recommended that departments aggressively search out qualified minority candidates for junior and senior Faculty positions. The report also suggested that departments with especially small numbers of women Faculty members put forth a "special effort" to attract "the largest possible number of the strongest women candidates." Four of those departments--Anthropology, English, History, and Psychology and Social Relations--this year granted tenure to women scholars, which will bring the total number of tenured women Faculty...
Wright said the committee has routinely granted such extensions upon request, adding that her research, sponsored by a $77,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, would be "imperiled" if she did not receive the extension. Eileen Southern, professor of Afro-American Studies and Music, who served as the department's chairman before Huggins came to Harvard last fall, said last December it would be a simple matter to allow Wright to stay on another year. Southern, who worked with Wright on her research, added that the department routinely grants extensions, often "for less important reasons" than Wright...
...symbol of all that Harvard is trying to do to Cambridge," in Sullivan's words. The University never ceased its campaign, and eventually, in December, won the final battle. The Rent Control Board, despite howls from tenant advocates that it was bowing to landlords, unanimously approved a University request for a "removal permit." allowing Harvard to evict the tenants...
...faculty and staff members, because of professional obligations and their voluntary relationship with other members of the academic community, to forego rights that they otherwise have as citizens (i.e. "the gathering of intelligence nd other covert activities on behalf of the CIA"). We made this request because we concluded that the practices in question are inconsistent with the nature of a university community and the obligations of a member of the academic profession. Covert recruiting by university personnel and its attendant practices bring a new and disturbing element into the relationships among members of the academic community, represent a serious...
...Committee to Review the Structure of College Governance"--usually called the Dowling Committee after its chairman, John F. Dowling '57, professor of Biology and master-designate of Leverett House--was appointed by Dean Fox last spring in compliance with the assembly's request. The eight-member committee, which consists of four undergraduates, three Faculty members and the dean of students, met privately a dozen times this fall and issued a report in March suggesting two major reforms: the creation of a new student council with a $60,000 annual budget, and the division of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate...