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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frustrating--people don't realize howintimidating it can be to be the only one, to feelthat you just can't blend in," says the GSDassistant dean. "Yes I am an administrator, butno, I'm a Black administrator--and that's real...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Voicing Controversial Views | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...opportunity to work with two very distinguished gentlemen. They invited me to join them. I decided that the opportunity for professional growth was better there than I thought it would be doing what I was doing so I took a deep breath and left. And I'm very glad I did. I missed teaching, but I used to construct opportunities for teaching along...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilson's 'Quiet Diplomacy' | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...people who are tenured are senior in age. It takes a while for that pool to go through the system. I will be delighted when the workforce in academia is more evenly distributed. I think it will be beneficial for students and certainly beneficial for scholarship in general. I'm not knowledgeable enough about Harvard to know if it is an unusual problem here. One could say that if the system has this effect perhaps we should question the system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilson's 'Quiet Diplomacy' | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

Wilson: That's certainly a significantfactor. I'm not familiar enough with the Harvardscene to say whether that's the dominant factor orone of 20 factors. The pool of women who are verywell-trained who want to be at a particularinstitution is very small. One has to make anextraordinary effort to recruit them, but everyonein the country is trying to recruit them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilson's 'Quiet Diplomacy' | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...ofthe faculty. I take care to disabuse them of thatif I discover that they made that mistake. I feelquite comfortable to speak out on any issue onwhich I feel well-grounded and in which myresponsibilities cover that scope. I try to becareful not to extend my reach where I'm notwelcome or where it's not really part of my rolebecause one can tend to do damage there. One ofthe things that I explored when I was looking atthis job was just what exactly is this role, whatare the issues. I will not be afraid to speak upif I have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilson's 'Quiet Diplomacy' | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

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