Word: msa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UNFORTUNATELY, the specific policy recommendations of the Verba Committee appear unsalvageable. It would be nice if groups such as the Minority Students Alliance (MSA), which has spearheaded the push for minority faculty in the past, could convince the Faculty Committee to reconsider. But from a purely pragmatic standpoint, holding out for the fulfillment of the Verba Report's policy recommendations would be less effective than taking what the Faculty Committee has offered and exploiting it to the maximum...
Harvard's practice of counting foreign-born scholars when compiling lists of minority faculty drew fire last year from the Minority Students Alliance (MSA), which said the University was manipulating the count to pad its numbers...
Thus, the Verba committee's primary task was to devise such a mechanism. Most of the discussion between MSA representatives and the committee members focused on this--MSA sought an institutional insurance of accountability...
...group, forming a Standing Committee of the Faculty on Affirmative Action, which would evaluate all the departments. These first two elements would be the key to establishing the needed departmental accountability. An assistant dean (the third part) would chair this committee and coordinate its actions. The members of the MSA believed this was a step in the right direction...
Wendell C. Ocasio '90 is president of La O. Last year he was the spokesperson for the MSA committee on minority faculty...