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...Clinton administration intends to submit the name of Weiner Professor of Social Policy Mary Jo Bane to the Congress for the post of Assistant Secretary of HHS, the Boston Globe reported...
...Bane is currently on leave from Harvard, serving as New York State's commissioner of social services. Should she be nominated and confirmed to a post in the Clinton administration--a likelihood despite problems with paying Social Security taxes for domestic help--the Kennedy School would be left with no female tenured professors when her two-year leave expires next year...
Students said yesterday that although they were excited about Bane's appointment, they feared her departure would only worsen the atmosphere for female students and faculty members...
Second-year student Laurel MacLaren, a member of the Coalition for Diversity, a student group which seeks to increase diversity among K. School faculty, said Bane's departure would make it more difficult for the school to recruit women...
MacLaren said women, faculty and students consider Bane a mentor and her departure would leave only junior faculty members as role models...