Word: committeee
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Harvard has chosen to fight the election of any future dissenting overseers. In September, the University announced its full support for the Young Committee's report, which would improve University candidates' chances of election.
The report, presented by a Faculty committee headed by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba in March, called on the departments to designate affirmative action representatives, who would be responsible for identifying qualified candidates and drawing up reports on the departments' progress each year.
But the response to the report has been less than faithful to its primary goal of creating adversarial voices to spur each department to action. Instead, the Executive Committee of the FAS has proposed that the department chairs be responsible for the affirmative action duties on top of their already...
In 1981, a faculty committee recommended Jackson for tenure by a "preliminary" vote of 47-7, but her bid fell below the "substantial majority" needed when support dwindled to a slim 25-24 majority three weeks later.
Although no faculty members have stepped forward to join the student position, students have also suggested creating a student-faculty committee to demonstrate a broad base of support for the office's restoration.