Word: msa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minority Students Alliance (MSA) set off the new tide of activism last spring by producing the original report on minority faculty recruitment. After meeting with MSA members, Spence commissioned the faculty group and charged it with investigating the MSA's claims that minorities are not as actively sought out by Harvard as they should...
Student activists criticized the Verba Committee throughout the fall, saying that they were skeptical about the results it would produce. MSA members have said that they fear Harvard will bury the forthcoming Verba Report in the same way that a 1980 report, produced by Dean K. Whitla, was forgotten...
...addition, students from the MSA and the Women's Alliance say that the inclusion of both women and minorities in the committee's report would only dilute its potential effectiveness...
...newly formed Women's Alliance--and the Minority Students Alliance (MSA) from which women activists say they have taken their cue--will have its hands full in the next month responding to the forthcoming Verba Report on affirmative action in the faculty. The product of a high-level faculty committee's deliberations over the past semester, the report is expected to be released sometime in the next few weeks...
Members of the committee, which is chaired by Prorzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53, have been closemouthed about the group's deliberations, but the panel has nonetheless generated controversy among students throughout the fall. MSA members charged that the faculty panel's potential impact was diluted by the inclusion of women faculty members in Verba's mandate. And the Women's Alliance announced it would try to insure that women were property considered in the forthcoming report...