Word: ocr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drive for a thorough compliance scrutiny, the task force on Monday submitted to Bynoe, the head of HEW's Office of Civil Rights (OCR), a 20-page analysis of alleged University-wide non-compliance with guidelines set out in the 1975 Harvard Affirmative Action Plan...
Furthermore, members of the task force followed this initial contact with HEW with a meeting on Wednesday to discuss the allegations with the three OCR officials who will conduct the review...
...OCR officials seemed to agree with the analysis that the University has used understated figures of women and minority group members available for hiring," one task force member who attended the meeting said this week. "They seemed to consider our report of significant value," he said...
...Bynoe suggested that OCR is not interested in putting too much pressure on Harvard or to fulfill a punitive role...
While Bynoe said "it wouldn't make sense to ignore the information about different departments given in the analysis, since it will help us ask specific questions," he added that OCR officials are particularly concerned with its mandate to give Harvard technical assistance with affirmative action...