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Nearly two years after a surge of student activism prompted an internal review of hiring practices, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this fall will finally get down to the nuts and bolts of improving its affirmative action efforts...
Instead, the plan finally adopted by Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence last spring essentially adds the monitoring of affirmative action efforts to the department chairs' already long job descriptions. There will be a new committee formed to review affirmative action reports that each department will now be required to compile annually...
...major change expected in the FAS landscape is the appointment of a new associate dean for affirmative action. The administrator will be a tenured professor charged with overseeing the faculty's affirmative action efforts...
Spence said in interviews last spring that he would begin to implement the new affirmative action plan over the summer, but he has yet to announce the appointment of an associate dean. He said last week that he would make an announcement soon...
Will the new dean be an iconoclast, prepared to be a vocal advocate for affirmative action in a faculty often resistant to change? Or will the administrator be a faculty insider, knowledgeable enough to nudge colleagues in the direction of gradual change? No one knows, and Spence is remaining tight-lipped...