Word: dean
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Under the plan, each departmental representative would draw up lists of potential minority and women tenure candidates, check hiring practices for discrimination and prepare a written report on their department every year. All departmental representatives together would form a standing committee on affirmative action--chaired by the associate dean...
...best possible outcome of this report would be that Harvard would take full advantage of the structures implemented. Spence would appoint a vocal associate dean not afraid to lean on departments who do not make increasing minorities and women faculty members a priority. Faculty representatives would put affirmative action ahead of departmental parochialism and chummy loyalties. And Harvard would lead an effort by the nation's universities to encourage minorities and women to enter academic professions...
When Brendan A. Maher assumes his post as dean of the Graduate, School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) in July, he will find himself at the helm of a school strengthened administratively in the past four years but still financially troubled...
Maher, whose appointment awaits the formal approval of the governing boards, will take over for outgoing Dean Sally Falk Moore, during whose tenure the graduate school grappled with the perennial problems of too few students and too little money...
Moore became dean in 1985, right after a faculty review--prepared by Leverett Professor of Physics Karl Strauch--concluded that GSAS needed an infusion of financial support from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Her appointment was made at the same time that then-Dean of the College John B. Fox '59 was named GSAS administrative dean...