Word: knowleses
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And there is little reason to believe that there will be a significant increase in the rate of female tenuring because the 1997 Affirmative Action Plan is little more than an affirmative awareness plan. As Knowles wrote in the fax, "I hope that in the coming years, the gender ratio...
It is true that there are significant obstacles in the way of quickly achieving an acceptable tenure ratio of men to women. In the first place, the rate of Faculty turnover is, according to Knowles, "only about 4 percent" each year. Secondly, the size of the Faculty is very large...
The report, entitled "Harvard Women in the University Campaign," represents Harvard's beginning efforts to address the concerns of alumnae and to encourage their involvement in the capital campaign, according to Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, whose office issued the report.
"Why aren't women more active at Harvard? Why do our alumnae feel less connected? Why have we not engaged as many women as leaders and donors in our fundraising?" Knowles questions in a letter introducing the report to alumnae and alumni.
Lyn Chamberlin, spokesperson for the Radcliffe Alumnae Association, applauded the questions asked by Knowles in the report. Linda S. Wilson, president of Radcliffe, was in Texas yesterday and could not be reached for comment.