Word: hires
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Early morning drama at the home of Dean of the Law School Robert C. Clark prefaced an afternoon of heated debate yesterday about the school's efforts to hire minority and women faculty...
...They will hire white women and Black men but that's the extent," said Boykin, a coalition member. "They don't want to go any further than a few white women to appease...
...already small number of minority professors. If other Black professors follow suit, the Law School could be left with the embarrassing situation of having no Black professors. That position would be untenable. The student protests and the backlash from alumni would be considerable. Harvard would have to hire more minority professors...
...CLEAR if this new dimension of dissent will work with the Harvard administration. If the law students or Derrick bell succeed in their legal action, it is not definite that there is anything they can do to force Harvard to hire certain people. There are too many factors--such as the consent of those to whom the University offers jobs--beyond the control of Harvard's faculty hiring committees...
...only thing we can count on is that Harvard won't change without pressure. The current tactics, however, might be creative enough to send Harvard an insistent message: Hire a more diverse faculty or spend the next several generations tied up in legal action...