Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief administrator for Harvard's affirmative action program expressed shock yesterday at the failure of the dean of the Faculty to consult all major department chairmen in setting target figures for the hiring of women and minority group members...
Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to President Bok, said yesterday that he had interpreted the Federally-required hiring guidelines to mean that John T. Dunlop, former dean of the Faculty, should have given the primary initiative for setting goals and timetables to the department chairmen...
...selection. Should their selection then be on the basis of group quotas? No, the best guide to attaining representative character is found in certain features of the political process itself: the balanced ticket, the struggle over who should get a nomination in a specific district, the attempt of political chairmen to select representative committees. One should not have the hard lines of the quota with all its dangers, but there should exist a general commitment that various measures should be taken to achieve representative character...
...Commission on Graduate Education would play a major role in drafting a new aid plan. When the plan was eventually presented to the Commission in January, its student members withheld their support. Their objections were dismissed: the plan was ordered implemented by administrative fiat with consent of department chairmen...
...decision to bypass the Commission thus clearly locates the GSAS's center of power in the departments--not in the dean's office or the graduate student body. Dean Wilcox says that he has urged department chairmen not to fund students below their calculated need, but it seems unlikely that all chairmen will heed his advice. Many of them have already complained that the Kraus plan drains their "merit pool" to its functional limits...