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Andrew F. Brimmer, Ford Visiting Professor of Economics and chairman of the DuBois Institute advisory board, said this week that he and other members of the board will meet "sometime in the near future" with President Bok and Dean Rosovsky, to discuss minority recruiting in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...Brimmer said he and the board will wait before taking any action until getting further instructions from Bok and Rosovsky...
Andrew F. Brimmer, chairman of the DuBois Advisory Board and Ford Visiting Professor of Economics, has even less power to do anything about the problem than Jewett. It is apparent that the only reason Bok and Rosovsky sanctioned him and members of the DuBois Advisory Board to aid McY inney in developing more effective recruitment methods was because, in the words of one committee member, they were "the only critical mass" of blacks in the University. The board can do little more that sit there and say to prospective applicants that Harvard does have a few people who care...
Hostile and Distrusting. Not all of the criticism comes from within the economics department. Last April a visiting committee of Harvard overseers (trustees) headed by Andrew Brimmer, then a governor of the Federal Reserve Board, reported that the graduate economics curriculum was "greatly in need of reformation" and that its first-year required graduate course was "disgraceful." The overseers found the senior faculty "inaccessible and unapproachable, seeing only the few students who gain access to their empires," while a "hostile and distrusting" relationship festered between students and faculty...
...Brimmer said fellowships created by the grant will become available in September, but did not say how many graduate students could be supported...