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...Kennedy School became the focus of an affirmative action-related controversy early in the year, when a national women's group filed a complaint against the school with the Labor Department, charging that the school has ignored federal affirmative action guidelines. The Women's Equity Action League (WEAL) also charged that the K-School had failed to adequately advertise faculty openings in minority-and women-oriented publications. The Labor Department report found the WEAL complaint "not without merit," according to the source...
...Forman feels uncomfortable discussing herself, and would rather focus her energy on causes. She prefaces any remarks about the K-School with the comment, "my experience here was very good, and I would do it again if I had to." She then launches into a long list of complaints...
...major problem Forman sees in the K-School is its "glaring contradictions While it calls itself a professional school, she says, the students are "not treated as professionals. There is a lack of respect for students...
When she was considering government schools she remembers, one of the things she liked most about the K-School was its claim to personal faculty-student relationship. But when she got here. "I saw they didn't walk around chatting like the catalogue said. Lots of students don't even know who Dean (Graham T.) Allison...
...popular with K-School officials, Forman has won the hearts of students and staff. Everyone who sees her at the K-School takes the time to stop and chat: She take issues, but not herself, seriously. Once, when her contemporaries were furiously studying for finals, she bought a kite and flew it on the K-School lawn...