Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...departments where there is statistically significant underutilization of women, * special effort must be made to attract the largest possible number of the strongest women candidates. The Dean should continue to meet with the chairmen of these departments, especially when a tenured position is available, in order to discuss the most effective ways of including women candidates before search committees begin their work...
...Bunting Institute, could provide the necessary freedom and time for promising minority scholars. The DuBois Institute has expressed interest in such a program and its effort to secure outside funding should be supported by the Dean and the President. We also understand that there are often opportunities to attract minority scholars who have already obtained post-doctoral fellowships but seek institutional affiliations...
Nathan I. Huggins, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, also spoke at that meeting. Rather than address Wilson's main point about goals, Huggins suggested a different question: Should Harvard undertake a deliberate policy to attract minorities and women to its faculty? The key word, Huggins stressed, was "deliberate." He said the University should put forth that effort because it was the right thing to do and because it would improve the quality of the University...
Like Williams, Amherst eventually began again to attract its customary number of minority students. Amy Johnson, an Amherst admissions officer, says the college's admissions staff informed secondary-school counselors of Amherst's interest in Blacks and used the College Board's student search much more extensively than before. Those efforts, along with active involvement by Amherst's Black students, helped bring the number of Blacks back up to 27 for the Class of '85, she says...
...follower. If he crosses the street as well, turn around to look, taking note of the sex, size, and features of the person. If he persists, scream, run to a well-lit business or residence, enlist a passerby, flag down a motorist, pick up an emergency blue-light phone, attract attention in the best...