Word: personnel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creation of a nine-member committee to review all cases of minority workers' grievances. Included on the committee would be two members of Afro and two workers as well as Harvard personnel representatives...
...university's alleged overworking of dining-hall employees. At issue was the case of Mrs. Colia Williams, a Negro cafeteria waitress. Offended by a student supervisor's rude remarks, she threw cranberry juice in his face and was fired for "due cause." Result: 200 protesters occupied the personnel office and held four officials. Following the guidelines of President Kingman Brewster's "riot scenario," Yale warned the activists to vacate or face suspension. While most obeyed, 47 stayed put and were expelled. As for Mrs. Williams, she was rehired with back...
...total Harvard employees, more than half-7281-are members of some faculty. As of last April, only 60 of them are black. When the whole faculty group is taken away from the hiring charts, the results look more encouraging for the Personnel office: there are 6278 employees, of which 422 (about 6.7 per cent) are black...
...Personnel office is still working on details of its MA-5 program and does not know how big its grant finally will be. But a Personnel officer estimated yesterday that about 85 people from the community and 25 current Harvard employees might go through the training. Under MA-5 rules, the number of "upgraded" current employees cannot be more than 30 per cent of the number of community people trained...
According to the Personnel officer, who asked not to be identified, most of the people in the MA-5 program will be black or from the Spanish-speaking areas of Cambridge. He added that Harvard has set up contacts with community job training organizations in Boston and Cambridge and will work with them in finding trainees for MA-5 and other programs...