Word: eck
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...spring of 1985, a faculty committee headed by Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, completed a four-year review of the Foundation. That committee published a host of recommendations--calling for a full-time director, increased student and faculty input, and more adequate space for minority student groups, among them--and aimed at increasing the Foundation's presence...
Whether the Foundation has adequately acted upon the recommendations in the Eck report is a matter of disagreement...
...this year, we will have done most everything recommended by the Eck report, including getting funds started," Bossert says...
...minority students' demands for a Third World Center, a perennial sore point in relations between the Harvard administration and students. The Foundation was created in response to this demand, and its original charter does speak of a "Junior Common Room space" for minority student organizations. Last year's Eck Report acknowledges the problem of space for minority groups, "urg(ing) the University to consider ways in which this concern might...
Currently, the Foundation awards grants to students and groups every semester, despite the Eck report's recommendation that the Foundation consider "development grants" which foster "long range planning." And both Bossert and Gomes say the Foundation has no intention of funding projects on an ongoing basis...