Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Association of Black Faculty and Administrators, co-chaired by Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell, awarded Vorenberg the C. Clyde Fergusen Award for his "contributions to enhancing diversity in the Harvard community." The group cited a 50 percent increase of minority representation on the Law School's faculty and staff...
According to the school's spokesperson, Michael Chmura, the number of tenured women has grown to five, and the single minority professor who was on the tenure track when Vorenberg assumed the deanship has been joined by three tenured Black scholars and two junior professors who are minorities...
Last May, 50 members of the Black Law Students Association--joined by Bell--occupied Vorenberg's office for 24 hours to protest the paucity of minority professors. And Alianza, the school's Hispanic student organization, held two silent demonstrations and postered the campus this spring to protest the lack of a Hispanic professor. In April 125 law students held a study-in as part of a protest involving students at over 35 law schools nationwide demanding greater faculty diversity...
...Ronald Walters is a professor of political science at Howard University and president of the National Congress of Black Faculty. He spent spring term as a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics...
...education programs--$250 million "merit schools" program, aimed at reducing dropout rates, a $8 million program to award outstanding teaching, and $3 million in outlays for education of homeless children. Another program receiving significant praise has been one providing $60 million in matching grants for the endowments of Black colleges...