Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With Verba's ever-lengthening list of faculty positions, it was no surprise that Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence tapped the government scholar to chair a committee charged with proposing a new affirmative action strategy at a time when only about 8 percent of FAS' tenured faculty are women and 7 percent are minorities...
Protest organizers said Stone--who attends about 15 board meetings a year--has rejected opportunities for a settlement with the strikers. They said they may take further action at Harvard if Stone does not accede to their demands...
Resting discreetly amidst a pile of Graduate School of Design newsletters is a copy of what most would consider a fairly obscure publication, the Harvard Affirmative Action Newsletter...
...publication--actually a fairly dry compilation of news briefs about affirmative action in the University's various faculties--seems incongruous in the office of a Harvard dean, most of whom studiously avoid reference to the thorny tangle of issues raised by the hiring of women and minorities...
...chair of the Association of Black Faculty and Administrators for the past two years, Watson has emerged as a major new carrier of the affirmative action flame in the University--meeting with deans, writing reports, speaking to undergraduates. And implementing diverse hiring practices at the GSD, where his post as an assistant dean gives him the chance to influence decisions about both faculty and staff...