Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DESPITE YEARS of effort by faculty and concentrators, Afro-American Studies is still in trouble at Harvard. The department is demoralized and isolated from the rest of the Harvard community...
Dean Rosovsky recently announced what some observers have called a "last ditch effort to shore up Afro-Am. He has created an executive committee of five prominent scholars to run the department, to search for tenured professors and to determine Afro-Am's broad intellectual goals. Rosovsky and the committee members clearly have high hopes for the committee--and just as clearly do not know what to do if this new effort fails...
Cantor recently sent out questionaires to randomly selected support staff and supervisors asking their perception of how the personnel department was doing its job. An employee's perception of the personnel department's effectiveness can be used to measure morale, he says. The questionnaire culminated in an effort to make the department appear more accessible, Cantor says. "We got a report card of about a B," Cantor adds, emphasizing the personnel department has lots of room for improvement...
...Contexts of Culture courses must place literature and the arts of a particular culture in its social and historical context. Some have suggested this requires a tortured effort to combine an era's history, social life, literature and fine arts...
Students with language disabilities can get waivers, granted by the Administrative Board. But for the hundreds who just hate languages or simply have trouble with languages, Dinklage says, "They have no disability but lower aptitude and they hate languages and have to put in extra effort to pass the courses. For them it represents a painful diversion. That's just too bad--there's a language requirement...