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The committee's target numbers actually callfor a smaller increase in minority scholars thanYale has seen in the last 10 years, according toThe Yale Daily News. The report attributes themodest targets to the small pool of minorityacademics and an unwillingness to hire tenuredfaculty simply "by raiding our fellowinstitutions."
The 12-member panel concluded 20 months of deliberations Monday by issuing a report calling on the university to establish numerical 10-year affirmative action targets. A Harvard faculty committee issued a similar report on minority and women faculty in March, but it explicitly rejected numerical hiring goals or targets...
Among the 23 recommendations made by the Yalecommittee are the establishment of a visitingminority professor program to provide "mentors"for potential minority academics and the creationof a standing committee to monitor departments'affirmative action efforts. The proposals must beapproved by Yale University President Benno C.Schmidt before they can be formally...
The Yale committee was chaired by Professor ofPsychology Judith Rodin, who turned down theRadcliffe presidency last year.
Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba'53, who chaired Harvard's committee onaffirmative action, said that his panel had shiedaway from numerical recruiting goals because ofthe inherent uncertainty in hiring trends.