Word: actioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning to feel that their own Government can't deal adequately with crucial issues, like inflation and like energy," said Carter, just as though he had little part in that Government. Until the public gets aroused, he added, "we're going to have difficulty in Washington getting action taken...
...also spent this year discussing internal administrative problems peculiar to Harvard. No group initiated substantial changes, because "change at the GSAS is like a slow-moving ship," says Edward L. Keenan '57, dean of the GSAS. But administrators and students have clearly maneuvered into positions from which to take action next year...
...concrete action completed this year is to clarify rules governing selection and payment of graduate student teaching fellows. Students wanted uniform practices across all departments so all students had a fair chance at the jobs, to ease the burden of tuition and expenses. The new guidelines, drawn up by a student-Faculty committee and approved by Rosovsky, will take effect next year. Michael Moynihan, a member of the Graduate Student Council (GSC), says the guidelines tackle only part of the problem. "The kind of teaching one does, whether a graduate student can propose tutorials and have freedom from the syllabus...
...financial situation the GSAS is responding this year with the first stages of what will be significant changes in the size and the shape of the school. "We've done our homework, we've gathered together all the information to make the proposals and we'll see more action next year," Moynihan says about the GSC this year. But the generalization could be applied across the GSAS. Although Rosovsky admits that "We're moving slowly, as usual," the analysis, preparation and discussion of administrators and professors are a vigorous reaction to changes in the "real world" which have altered...
...women's advocate faces a formidable workload at Harvard. Affirmative action has barely made inroads into the ranks of senior faculty, where only 11 women hold tenured posts--less than 3 per cent of the number of full professors. The Faculty also needs to develop more courses about women and to incorporate more material about women into its existing courses...