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...Minority Students Alliance (MSA), an undergraduate umbrella group of minority students blasted the FAS in the report for its "complacency" in the recruitment and hiring of minority professors. The group demanded that Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence name a faculty committee to study the issue, and that he announce a course of action by next fall...
...MSA report and several minority professors say that the University must abandon its mentality of "passive recruitment." They say that the low overall numbers of minorities in academia exacerbate the difficulty Harvard faces, but they argue that the primary responsibility lies with insufficient efforts to reverse this trend on the part of the University...
Spence has refused to respond directly to the MSA report's criticisms, saying that the faculty committee should explore the options before he takes a position on how to increase the number of Harvard's minority faculty...
Spence said he wants the faculty committee to focus on three areas--a review of past policy and performance, a response to the MSA report, and a set of recommendations for changing existing policy. "By mid-semester they should have a brief but pointed report," said Spence...
...What will student participation in the deliberations of the committee consist of, beyond consideration of the recommendations included in our past report? Can a presentation of a rough draft of the final report be made to the MSA? Will the committee accept direct student input and feedback...