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...Women's Equity Action League (WEAL), said yesterday that when she speaks today at the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee hearings reviewing federal affirmative action policy, she will argue that current programs have been effective in increasing opportunities for women and minorities in education. She will use the K-School as evidence, citing the increase in women and minority professors hired by the K-School since WEAL filed a complaint with the Department of Labor more than a year...
WEAL's testimony will come three days after the group issued a point by point rebuttal to a recent K-School report on affirmative action in hiring. In the statement, WEAL said the report--which noted "significant progess" in the school's hiring--relied on "a misrepresentation of data...
WEAL--which last year charged the school with violating federal affirmative action hiring codes--also argues in its statement that the K-School's recent appointments of several women and minorities reflect only "reliance on the old-boy network...
...five minority and female appointments to the K-School faculty in the last year, the statement notes, four were of individuals with previous Harvard affiliations and were not "a result of an extensive search as the report would suggest...
...categorizing hirings like those in the CRP solely as "new appointments" in the progress report, Grossman said, Jackson "could make you feel that the efforts (of the K-School) were a little more spectacular than they were...