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...collar ethnic families. He de-emphasizes the G.O.P. label and tries to come across as an independent who cares enough about working-class problems to vote occasionally against Republican Administration positions. Two weeks ago, for instance, he voted to override President Ford's veto of the $56 billion HEW appropriation bill...
...basic thrust of HEW's Title IX, according to Phyllis Keller, the College's affirmative action officer, is equal access to educational facilities--athletics and housing are special cases, she said, and the bill's provision for separatism in those cases cannot be extended to academic studies...
...leading proponent of corporate unemployment and pension plans; the programs he established at Kodak and other Rochester firms became models for the nation. During the Depression, Folsom helped frame federal unemployment programs and the Social Security system, acknowledging that private resources were no longer adequate. His HEW tenure (1955-58) was marked by a greatly expanded budget for programs such as federal aid for school construction...
Harvard's experience with Affirmative Action dates from its first attempts at getting its plans approved in the early 1970s. Of the plans which Harvard submitted to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (in charge of enforcing Affirmative Action), the first three were so poor that even HEW had to reject them as inadequate...
Burgeoning Academies. At least when it comes to compliance with federal directives, that may be so. Of the more than 2,600 school systems in the eleven Southern states, the overwhelming majority desegregated under HEW pressure, and roughly 650 by direct court order. By 1972, 18 years after Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, 46.3% of all black pupils in the South attended schools that were predominantly white (compared to 31.8% in the Border states and 28.3% in the North and West). On the whole, desegregation has been most successfully achieved in small towns and rural districts, whereas...