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...minority faculty at Harvard may be unprecedented, the substance of this new proposal is all too typical. Issued by the University's chief affirmative action official, Ronald Quincy, this report represents a continuation of Harvard's deceptive and regressive policies. In the face of both student pressure from the MSA (Minority Students Alliance) and after administrative pressure from the Association of Black Faculty and Administrators, the University's intransigence can only be viewed as an attempt to exclude minorities from its faculties...
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...
...morning of September 28, five representatives from the Minority Students' Alliance (MSA), a coalition of the five undergraduate minority student groups on campus, met with the members of the newly formed Committee on Affirmative Action of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. At this meeting, we presented our understanding of the nature of the Committee and its work, discussed our views on the issue of minority faculty recruitment at Harvard, and detailed specific recommendations that we believe the Committee should consider...
...case, we feel that there must be constant communication between the committee and MSA. We would expect the members of the committee not to hesitate to contact us in writing if they feel that they would like to further understand our position in any of the issues. Similarly, we will keep in contact with individual members so as to keep all channels open...
...MSA report released last spring attacked the administration for complacency and indifference in the area of minority hiring, noting that searches rarely turned up minority candidates. It called on the University to formulate a centralized plan for handling the problem...