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Students yesterday submitted a petition to President Bok, Dean Rosovsky, and Wallace T. MacCaffrey, chairman of the History Department, demanding that the History Department promote Mary F. Nolan, assistant professor of History...
...addition, Nolan's teaching ability is widely accalimed by undergraduates and graduate students alike. She is described as "incredibly conscientious," her lectures as, "packed full of information and extemely insightful...
...Nolan's combined perspective, feminist and socialist, is unique in the history department and her courses are in great demand. Her fall offering, History 1333: "The Crisis of Liberalism and Capitalism in Western Europe" drew about 150 students, while the conference course she offers this spring attracted more than five times as many students as could be accomodated. Students consistently want to take her courses, a clear indication of her skill as an educator...
Many students and members of the faculty and administration consider diversity essential to the quality of a liberal education. Diversity, however, seems to be acceptable only within a narrowly defined area. Nolan broadens the range of perspective on history to which students have access. MacCaffrey, however stated that he "doesn't think much of viewpoints one way or the other." MacCaffrey denies the importance of such a diversity of perspectives within the History Department and "doesn't think the department should have a 'political spectrum.'" MacCaffrey claims the emphasis is on scholarship and points out that the History Department...
...Nolan case is proof that Harvard's history department is not doing all it can and should to comply with affirmative action guidelines. The Nolan case and the Auspitz case are only two visible and prominent examples of prejudicial policies which discriminate, on one pretext or another, against the promotion and tenure of qualified women at Harvard. The problem is a pressing one. If departments are unwilling to improve their performance with regard to affirmative action, then it is the responsibility of the Harvard administration to see that those principles are upheld...