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...sense a frustration," says Schussler Fiorenza of women at the school, saying that frustration stems from the dearth of female faculty members...
According to the departing president, the lack of women faculty at Harvard, the unavailability of scholarship on women and the dearth of information about women's lives all presented key barriers to women's achievement in scholarship which she felt pressed to address...
...About 60 Law School students protest the school's absence of Hispanic faculty members. The demonstration occurs exactly one year after members of the Black Law Students Association held a 24-hour sit-in to protest the dearth of Black professors...
...relatively small available pool of Black faculty, there are still approximately 18,000 today. Since many Ivy League institutions are able to afford the best and brightest of any faculty, the supply question should be mitigated by their resources. So the logical reason which has emerged for the dearth of Black faculty is that they are not "the best" in their fields--or, the meritocracy argument all over again...
Martial law, blocked satellite transmissions and a dearth of reliable sources are all part of a very long day's work. -- TV has made English the lingua franca of protest...