Word: mckay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Core subcommittee on the QRR is split over how to resolve its problems. Some members want only to refine existing programs, while others advocate converting the QRR into an 11th Core discipline that would add coursework to competency tests, said McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis, who is overseeing the QRR review...
...McKay's decision to stay at Wisconsin comes at a time when that school has had difficulty retaining its Black faculty, despite an ambitious affirmative action plan. Last year, Wisconsin brought in three new Black professors, but five Blacks already on the faculty departed, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education...
Grant said he did not see McKay's choice of Wisconsin over Harvard as a victory for his school, saying the competition for her demonstrated a larger problem in academia...
David W. Blight, who left a junior position at Harvard last year to accept a tenure-track post at Amherst College, said that rejections such as McKay's would not be such large blows if the tenure system at the University could make appointments more quickly and easily...
...disappointed, but not surprised" at McKay's decision, said Blight, a personal friend of McKay's. "It would have been a big boost for the department...