Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think [the University's hiring of women is] heading in the right direction," says Dr. Eleanor G. 'Shore '51, associate dean for faculty affairs in the office of academic programs in the Medical School. She says that she believes President Bok, who appoints deans and other high level administrators, is committed to promoting women. "There is a wish from the top down that we move in that direction faster...
According to University affirmative action figures, Blacks make up 1.7 percent of tenured faculty, and 8.9 percent of junior-level professors. Hispanics comprise about 1 percent of both junior and senior faculty...
Assistant Professor of Japanese Haruko Iwasaki says that although she does not feel she has been a victim of discrimination, a distinct discrepancy is evident in the system. While most of the tenured faculty members in her department are white males, Iwasaki says those at the junior faculty level "are mostly women. The language side is 90 percent women and minority...
...also giving the faculty more say in graduate student admissions, Herron says. She says Vendler has helped increase the direct contact among the faculty, Dean of the Graduate School Sally Falk Moore and prospective students. "Since January of this year, the effort here has gone to a new level of intensity," Herron says, adding that she can now contact Moore directly to recommend candidates and gets an immediate answer to her requests...
...know how much [you are] chaning people's attitudes, you never know the whole issue. With SWAT we can say we are experts on the final clubs because we go to Harvard." Theoharis says she thinks activism has gained adherents by turning inward because "it's on an immediate level." And she remains confident that despite the problems faced by college activists, in the end their causes will prevail...