Word: dean
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...Dean's office should encourage visiting professorships for women and minorities...
Activists have been critical of the report's almost complete reliance on bureaucratic structures to increase the numbers of women and minority professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). The Verba Report proposes the appointment of an associate dean for affirmative action and the selection of one senior faculty member in each academic department to monitor its recruitment efforts...
Under the Verba Report's recommendations, the new associate dean would be a faculty member, and students fear that Spence might appoint someone unwilling to press departments who lag in their recruiting efforts...
...says students present at the briefing two weeks ago asked that student input be allowed in the selection of the associate dean and the departmental representatives. But Verba Committee members said it would not be appropriate for students to have any decision-making power in FAS appointments, Koh says...
...Dean should encourage department to invite minority scholars to Harvard in case their paper record did not reflect their qualifications...