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Professor of Law Christopher F. Edley Jr, who has taken a leave of absence to serve in the Clinton administration, said last night he is unhappy with progress on faculty diversity at the Law School, and may not return to Harvard...
...Edley, who is Black, will take a post in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). His departure reduces to two the number of Black tenured professors teaching at the Law School...
...Edley said the $83,000 allotted for minority projects this year has been spent on a variety of projects. The gift is financing six faculty research projects on topics ranging from the criminal justice system to immigration of Haitian refugees. Fifteen students are being supported for clinical research in Third World countries this month. In addition, the donation is being used to fund conferences on economic development in the Third World and five summer internships in human rights agencies...
...Edley said he was unimpressed with Lempert's proposals. "Lempert has trouble accepting that other people have better ideas than he does, and he's obviously uninformed about where the money's going," Edley said...
This month, the Law School is planning to release a formal announcement listing the projects being financed, Edley said. Lewis could not be reached for comment...