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...report also suggested reserving two visiting professorships each year for minority and women scholars and allowing departments to seek special permission to hire qualified minorities and women for whom they do not have positions available. While some administrators hailed the recommendations as substantial departures from current practices, several Faculty members criticized the report at a February Faculty meeting, saying that it emphasized statistics and seemed to establish a quota system for hiring women and minorities. Despite the protestations, Dean Rosovsky quietly implemented the changes during second semester...
Hughes-Hallett recalls having to convince "several people in University Hall" in 1970 to let her hire undergraduates, and being told it would be "a highly irregular thing to do." "I may have been the first," she says. But over a decade the practice has spread to science and computer courses--especially Natural Sciences 110, "Automatic Computing," and Applied Math 110, "Introduction to Computer Programming...
Others are not as willing to believe that the school is doing what it can. Elsa Porter, a member of the school's visiting committee, calls the school's record "dismal," and Lori A. Forman, a member of the K-School Student Association, citing the school's refusal to hire a minority recruiter, argues that "the budget has constantly dictated policy rather than what was ethically or socially right...
...Mansfield Jr. '53 rose to speak. Talking in hushed but forceful tones, the veteran professor of Government sharply criticized the proposals put forth in the study as "a departure from our principle of equal opportunity to each individual with equal merit." Furthermore, by giving departments special opportunities to hire qualified women and minorities, as the study urged, the University would effectively "set up a category in which no white male could qualify," he said. Measures like the study suggested that give minorities or women special advantage. Mansfield argued, undermine the merit system and high standards on which the University...
Mansfield was outgunned that day: though several professors joined him in assailing the study, a majority supported its calls for increased recruiting of minorities and women for junior faculty slots and for allowing departments to seek special permission to hire women and minorities for whom they do not have positions available. Shortly after the session. Dean Rosovsky set in motion the policies put forth in the study...