Word: gsd
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...officials also visited the Graduate School of Design on Monday, interviewing members of the GSD personnel office and the chairmen of the GSD academic departments...
Susan E. Denison, manager of operations at the GSD, said the officials in their meeting with her, besides inquiring about staff hiring policies at the GSD, also asked general questions about hiring methods throughout the University...
Both John A. Brown, assistant dean of the GSD, and O'Brien added that the HEW officials had mentioned they would follow up their inquiries in the second phase of the review during a week next month...
Hosken was determined to make her treatment at the GSD a test case against "old boy" hiring practices at Harvard that she believes discriminate against minorities and women. She waited until Bok took office in 1971--"there was no sense in doing this with Pusey," she says--and brought her complaint to HEW. After a year's investigation, HEW found that Hosken had suffered discrimination. Her case was "strange," however, according to Bob Randolph of the HEW Boston Civil Rights Office. "We didn't feel she was discriminated against because of her sex; the problems in this case were more...
...request, Kilbridge says, the GSD "spent hundreds of hours" preparing stacks of personnel records to demonstrate that it had considered Hosken's qualifications along with those of other applicants. That was three years ago--"they go away and never come back," Kilbridge says. HEW will be back, however, in the next few months to get additional information from the GSD and other departments...