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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years women argued for opportunity. Corporate Harvard, like other elite institutions, was run by white men; how could it pretend to care about diversity and respect different voices if it was run by only one group...
Unlike the memory of battles with Greeks that the delegation to Dean Epps brought to mind, the current issue of Outlook reminds of the exciting intellectual activity among a group of Harvard Black students during my early teaching days in the 1960s. A group of Black students (among them Ayee Queh Armah, now a novelist; Lee Daniels, now a New York Times correspondent, and Robert Hall, now a college professor) came up with the idea to found a journal--The Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs--and I and Archie Epps, then an assistant dean of freshmen, joined them as advisors...
Nevertheless, Outlook is a very serious enterprise by an intellectually engaged group of Harvard students. There are numerous areas of Black American life requiring serious attention from Harvard Black students. The poor reading, writing and math performance of Black public school students in inner cities cries out for tutorial assistance from Black college students (and from white, Asian, and Hispanic students too.) Such a program, in order to be effective, will have to sustained over the next 20 years perhaps...
After receiving those evaluations, the department's senior faculty vote on the candidate, and, if they approve the promotion, Bok then convenes a group of outside scholars for a final review. The tortuous process comes to a close, though, with the president, who has final say on all hiring matters and has been known to overrule departments' recommendations...
...anything the University is really benefiting tremendously from a group of junior faculty that is giving much more to the University than they will ever get back," Peterson adds...