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...least one side of the Medical School's affirmative action coin is shining. Its 20-per-cent minority student enrollment ranks well in comparison to other highly rated American medical schools. Minority faculty representation at the Med School, however, is another story altogether...
According to Dr. Alvin Poussaint, associate dean for student affairs at the Med School, minorities comprise less than 3 per cent of the medical faculties in the United States, and Harvard's record is not much better than the national average. The scarcity can not easily be attributed to any single outstanding problem and seems instead to be the result of a number of contributing factors...
...first in a series of steps aimed at exposing minority students to the possibilities of academic careers and "increasing the level of consciousness" of administrators involved in hiring about the need to employ more minorities. She offered as an example the Beth Israel Hospital, one of the Med School's largest teaching hospitals, which she said has hired only five minorities to faculty positions since...
People at the Medical School are wary of reverse discrimination, Clair says, adding that some feel that actively recruiting minorities for faculty positions will result in a drop in standards. But this is not the case, Clair, who served as a student member of the Med School admissions committee during his second year, says. "Because of the intense competition for faculty positions, large numbers of highly qualified people get overlooked, and because minorities make up such a small percentage of those seeking positions, their chance of being overlooked is great. Active recruitment is simply a way of making qualified minorities...
Duane said the society chose the Med School because of the outstanding dyslexia work performed by two of its faculty members, Dr. Norman Geschwind. Putnam Professor of Neurology, and Dr. Albert M. Galaburda, instructor in Neurology...