Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Bell and others, Watson's ability to muster support as a vocal advocate of affirmative action is unique at the University. Watson, they say, is unusual in that he is an administrator who doesn't hesitate to take on the administration...
This insistence on his racial identity isconnected to Watson's activities as an educator,an administrator and a social activist. ForWatson, the decision to take on the cause ofaffirmative action at Harvard was, he says, an"inevitable" one, stemming from years of combinedexperience in both his personal and professionallives...
Outrage and Action...
...this pattern of outrage and action whichWatson has replayed again and again. As anundergraduate at the State University of New Yorkat Oswego. As a graduate student in Black studiesat Cornell. As an administrator at Harvard...
...this year was the intense and, at times, bitter struggle to boost minority and women faculty hiring. Nearly 3000 undergraduates signed a petition to this end this spring, and it was the Minority Student Alliance which issued the stinging critique that prodded the Faculty of Arts and Sciences into action last year...