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...that time, Clark said he "would think" that HEW would only accept projections by department--not faculty-wide--in the case of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Reliable sources have indicated that several of HEW's objections were ironed out during negotiation sessions between Leonard and the HEW Office of Civil Rights (which reviews the proposals). The same sources said, however, that there are still aspects of the program that must be modified for compliance with Federal standards as spelled out in the rejection letter and clarified during the negotiation sessions...
Soon after The Crimson (May 17) reported that the affirmative action plan submitted to HEW on May I was facing unfavorable review and might be rejected, Peter Clark '69, an HEW reviewer, indicated that Harvard's failure to break down by department its hiring projections could be one obstacle to Federal acceptance of the plan...
When the proposal--which took a year to complete at a cost to the University of nearly $250,000--was submitted to HEW on May 1, Leonard said that he had "every reason to believe" that the policy it set forth would meet Federal standards and would be accepted...
However, when reports of impending rejection came a few weeks later, Leonard conceded that the University's failure to subdivide the projections of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences by department could result in negative review of Harvard's affirmative action plan by HEW...