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Recent accusations by the American Council on Education [ACE], to the effect that Harvard has exaggerated the difficulty of minority hiring, strike us a hollow and undeserved. In the section focusing on the Faculty or Arts and Sciences, Harvard's report cites the fact the rate of new Ph. D.s among Blacks and Hispanics decreased between 1987 and 1992. ACE countered that the number of new Hispanic Ph. D.s increased by 3.4 percent between 1991 and 1992. "Harvard' numbers just don't sound impressive," said ACE Senior Scholar Reginald Wilson. "I guess they feel like if they hire one minority...
...staff also cites the scope of Harvard's "40 departments and several graduate schools" as a reason that any hiring of minority faculty will be "slow and scattered." What kind of logic is that? Does that mean that the University should never hire any minority faculty members because they will immediately be swallowed up in the frightening miasma that is Harvard? There is such a thing as proceeding one step at a time. The staff, in both its logic and its recommendations, does not seem to understand that...
HASCS staff say that there is so little space for personnel and computing facilities, that even if the University were to authorize HASCS to hire more employees, there literally would be no place to put them...
...attempt to clamp down on the discipline of University security guards, Harvard will hire two new security supervisors, according to several guards...
...looking at education, Ph.D.s in education will mater when you'relooking at staffing in the Graduate School ofEducation," Rudenstine said. "It will not matterat all when you're looking at Arts and Sciences,because we don't hire people with Ph.D.s ineducation...