Word: chairmen
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...hitch to any plan is that department chairmen within grad schools ultimately admit whom they want. If the proposals are to work, McKinney says, everyone must fall into line and play an active role in recruitment...
...school and have it reviewed automatically by other schools; this plan would include Harvard, Yale, Princeton and possibly other schools. The major benefit of this "consortium" is that it probably cannot fail to increase the individual departments' awareness of qualified students. The potential drawbacks are that department chairmen may fail, as they have in the past, to become involved in the actual implementation of the program, shirking the responsibility of individual recruiting. Secondly, the GSAS might use this plan, if it is unsuccessful, to avoid facing the fact that Harvard has failed singly also, placing the blame instead...
McKinney also said the GSAS is willing to give department chairmen financial assistance for their individual recruitment efforts...
Southern, who is only the second person and the first woman to receive tenure in Afro since the department was established in 1969, will assume the chairmanship of the department this spring from Ewart Guinier '33, who will be 66 years old--the mandatory age at which chairmen must retire...
Harvard's ACSR has in the past discussed some of the issues involved in management proposals with experts from the Harvard Law and Business Schools. But Stanley Surrey, Smith Professor of Law and Donald F. Turner, professor of Law--the former and present chairmen of the ACSR--and George Putnam, Harvard treasurer, all say that the committeee has neither the financial expertise nor the time to develop guidelines upon which Harvard can judge the management proposals...