Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Verba Committee had proposed the creation of a separate administrative framework intended to move departments away from traditional hiring networks when making tenure decisions. The panel had called for a faculty member other than the department chair to serve as a "departmental representative for affirmative action...
...council brought the affirmative action effort more in line with the current administrative setup of FAS, and its revisions left student activists predicting more frustration in the future about the University's inability to diversify its faculty...
...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...
...Action must follow acknowledgement, student activists remind us, but the faculty has yet to realize...
Cambridge cleared its officers of harassment, calling their action "professional and appropriate," and the question clearly became, appropriate for whom? For which race? For the 500 galvanized into protest that week, the answer was clear, as it was for Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and University Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner, who apologized to the students and appealed to Cambridge and the police. But again, the police have not responded...