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...open meeting between students and the Faculty committee this spring chaired by Edward L. Keenan '57, the most vocal students challenged the committee's stated opposition to forming a concentration in women's studies. Keenan argued that women's studies has no methodology, "no way of discovering facts" that differs from the way any other researcher attacks a problem. Instead, researchers in women's studies approach questions about women using the techniques of a historian, a scientist, an anthropologist or an economist, for example...
...departments. Besides the more general considerations affecting the quality of the nation's graduate education, GSAS students and Faculty also spent this year discussing internal administrative problems peculiar to Harvard. No group initiated substantial changes, because "change at the GSAS is like a slow-moving ship," says Edward L. Keenan '57, dean of the GSAS. But administrators and students have clearly maneuvered into positions from which to take action next year...
Rosovsky requested similar letters from all GSAS departments, and "the letters are still coming in," Keenan says, adding that he and Rosovsky will analyze the letters this summer, formulate some strategies, and "go from there...
Several students questioned why the charge of the committee had not included the hiring of women faculty or supporting women faculty for tenure. Keenan said the committee did not discuss women faculty because they did not feel it was included in their charge...
...Keenan said he planned to take the student suggestions and views back to the full committee "because the point of our purpose is to find out how students feel...