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There was no dearth of seductive offers. CBS reportedly talked to Brokaw about 60 Minutes and its planned, half-hour Up to the Minute, an afternoon news show aimed at women. ABC News President Roone Arledge, according to one insider, "went after Brokaw money, marbles and chalk," in an attempt to sign him up for ABC's multiple-anchor World News Tonight team, which occasionally includes the fast-rising Ted Koppel. But NBC responded in kind. The top brass urged a willing Chancellor to give up his New York anchor position by April 1982, six months earlier than planned...
...action. University-wide a predominant issue during first semester, took up a good part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' time this year. While 1980-81 saw many important changes in departments as well as the continued development of the Core Curriculum, the Faculty's investigation of its dearth of minority and women members received the most attention...
There is also worry that other non-tangible goals have been trampled under foot while the school has hastily pushed towards measurable progress. A complaint, lodged last October by a national women's organization, focused attention for the first time on the school's dearth of women and minority faculty and students. Hale Champion, executive dean of the K-School, says that officials themselves are not pleased with the racial and sex diversity of the school, but he defends its commitment to affirmative action...
According to the report, 18 departments are still underutilizing women in tenured positions and nine in non-tenured positions. Two departments have too few minority professors and five have too few minorities in ladder positions. Moreover, the same dearth of women and minorities exists--though to a slightly lesser degree--at administrative, professional and support staff levels throughout the University...
...between people is whether they belong to the American Lutheran Church or the Lutheran Church of America." But, in some ways she finds Harvard less advanced than Augustana. "Back home, people were thought of as people," she says. When she came here, for instance, she was surprised by the dearth of women and minorities in the classroom. "I was never really concious of being a 'woman' until I got here. I expected a lot from Harvard. I was amazed