Word: msa
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...faculty recruitment--the work of an ad hoc committee including representatives of minority and women's organizations--made 12 recommendations designed to increase the numbers of minority and women scholars at Harvard. All of the proposals were drawn from past reports, including one released by the Minority Students Alliance (MSA) last spring...
Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence formed the committee last spring in response to the MSA report, which attacked the administration for "complacency" on the issue and its decentralized structure for repsonding to thedearth of minority faculty at Harvard...
Concern over minority faculty recruitment was spurred by a report released last spring by the Minority Students Alliance (MSA) which noted the paucity of minority faculty on campus, and criticized the administration for "complacency" in rectifying the situation. Minority professors make up 6.2 percent of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Basically there is a complacency in thefaculty," said MSA representative Wendell C.Ocasio '89. "They are doing very little toincrease the number of minorities on the faculty...
According to official University statistics, 6.2 percent of Harvard's tenured faculty are minorities. However, as the report of the MSA clearly documented last spring, the deceptive figure represents the conflation of minorities and foreign scholars, who comprise at least half of those counted as "minorities" in these inflated statistics. Yet Harvard's affirmative action goals for the next five years call for the hiring of only eleven more tenured minority profesors and an additional thirty-three tenure-tracked professors. The rest of the University's affirmative action initiatives will be directed toward attracting temporary and visiting scholars, unable...