Word: membered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...search for solutions to the day caredilemma, the University recently consulted withStride Rite head Arnold S. Hiatt '48, a HarvardBoard of Overseers member whose companyestablished a model child care system more thantwo decades...
...even if McKay, whose appointment would be a joint one with English and American Literature, accepted the offer, she would become only the department's third tenured member...
...different fronts throughout the University, the interests of the two collided during the year. Junior faculty, undergraduates, pro-divestment alumni raised the perennial protest of University policies, and yet many felt frustrated by what one disgruntled Board of Overseers member called "the tyranny of consensus." Harvard, they said, did not encourage dissent, but rather tried, behind-the-scenes, to dissuade the dissenters. Success for these outsiders was measured in small victories--the promotion of a junior faculty member, the election of a progressive overseer, the hiring of a woman or a minority...
Diversity, as many have said, was a unifying theme for the year, if there is such a thing. From the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' latest wave of soul-searching about affirmative action to the appointment of the first woman to the Harvard Corporation, the University's seven-member chief governing board, the incorporation and accommodation of difference marked both faculty and administration. Whether it was the English Department's wrangling over the inclusion of new fields or the Board of Overseers' bitter election campaign, the politics of diversity were ubiquitous...
...good grasp of the issues," says MSAco-member Manuel Lopez Jr. '89, of RAZA. "He knowsthe problems that the administration has withminority issues," and adjusts strategiesaccordingly...