Word: action
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...government action did not deter Asian-Americans from applying to Harvard this year, as some had anticipated. About 18 percent of the Class of 1993 will be Asian-American students, up about 3 percent from the preceding class, marking 12th consecutive annual increase. The number of Asian-Americans admitted under Harvard's early action program also grew by 22 percent this year...
...going on," says Pforzheimer UniversityProfessor Sidney Verba '53. Verba, at 57 one ofthe most respected of Harvard's 300-plus seniorfaculty, chaired the blue-ribbon committee thatreviewed faculty hiring after the MSA--made up ofOcasio and leaders of four other undergraduateminority groups--attacked Faculty of Arts andSciences affirmative action policy for "confusion"and "complacency...
Ocasio explains the reason for his activitysimply. "Beyond the fact that I am Puerto Rican,which I am very proud of, Harvard is very muchused as a model. [Hiring reform] will help otherschools in their struggle by saying, 'Look,Harvard has a strong affirmative action program...
...report, presented by a Faculty committee headed by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba in March, called on the departments to designate affirmative action representatives, who would be responsible for identifying qualified candidates and drawing up reports on the departments' progress each year...
...response to the report has been less than faithful to its primary goal of creating adversarial voices to spur each department to action. Instead, the Executive Committee of the FAS has proposed that the department chairs be responsible for the affirmative action duties on top of their already heavy administrative loads. Under this version, there would be little guarantee that departments with bad hiring records would improve their practices...