Word: ladder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until the Federal government began pressuring Harvard to end its discriminatory hiring in 1970 that women and blacks began to ascend to the higher rungs of the academic ladder. Under the executive orders issued in 1970 and 1972 Harvard, like thousands of others schools, businesses and other institutions employing one-third of the nation's labor force, could lose their Federal contracts if they fail to devise acceptable "affirmative action" plans for correcting discriminatory employment policies. Federal contracts comprise nearly one-third of Harvard's annual income--about $60 million last year...
...action plan, the University states that the University will concentrate on junior faculty positions since "in this way, faculties can develop a group of proven ability to be promoted from within to more senior positions." Yet the goals actually project a decrease of four women assistant professors--the lowest ladder position--for next year, despite an overall increase of 31 such positions and although 109 of these posts will be available between...
...intense drive to make it to the top of the academic ladder is inexplicable at best. Departmental honors and undergraduate theses make little or no difference in determining an undergraduate's future: by the time departmental honors are awarded and the theses are graded, graduate schools have sent out their acceptances. In some cases, a high grade on the undergraduate thesis will help in getting into a second graduate school, but even in this instance, the master's work done in the first grad school is the primary factor...
Down the Administrative ladder lies the event which has taken most of the blame for the mess, although it is probably one of the less significant instigators of the housing mess: the CHUL housing shake-up in March. At that time, Radcliffe CHUL members agreed to drop their strict insistence on maintaining a 1 to 1 sex ratio at Radcliffe and to allow a decrease--1.18 to 1-- in the number of women at the 'Cliffe. In return for that concession, the Harvard CHUL members agreed to absorb 82 spaces from Radcliffe and also to convert 100 places at Radcliffe...
Rather, it is the latest in a series of efforts to insure--to the government's satisfaction--the equal employment of women and minority group members on all the rungs of the ladder, in all the faculties and departments of the University...