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Harvard administrators try to justify the lack of Asian-American faculty with the generalization that the "pool of qualified minority scholars is too small." At a meeting last spring, Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence told the Minority Student Alliance (MSA) that academic fellowships for minority students represented a quick method of removing at least some economic barriers that led to homogeneous faculties. Spence emphasized that the Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship in particular would be a long-term aid in increasing the number of minority faculty members...
...minority" problem became simply an "Asian-American" problem, and was summarily ignored...
Pointing to statistics released by the U.S. Department of Education and the American Council on Education, Drewry insists that Asian-Americans are well-represented in most faculties and Ph.D. programs. However, according to a 1988 Education Department report titled Increasing Minority Faculty: An Elusive Goal, Blacks and Hispanics have proportionally three-fold greater affinity for humanities Ph.D.'s than do Asian-Americans. The report flatly states, "Asian-Americans are highly concentrated in fields such as engineering and computer science..." The average salary of Asian-American professors also lags behind that of whites, Hispanics, and Blacks...
...justify the Mellon Foundation's policy, Drewry also referred to the significant advances of Asian-American representation in American universities. At Harvard, however, proportional Asian-American enrollment at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) is three times smaller than at the College...
...Harvard University will continue to assert that there are not enough qualified Asian-American humanities scholars suitable for tenure. And foundations such as the Mellon and Ford will continue to deny minority fellowships to Asian-Americans because "Orientals are overrepresented in the sciences." It leaves Asian-Americans paralyzed by a Catch...