Word: poole
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...School, said law schools--intentionally orunintentionally--exclude minorities from thefaculty by considering only traditionalcredentials. Bell contends that as long asappointments committees require their facultymembers to have had Law Review membership orclerkships with Federal justices--activities inwhich he says very few minoritiesparticipate--qualified minority professors will beexcluded from the faculty pool...
University policy dictates that faculty membersmust give priority to Harvard graduate studentswhen hiring teaching fellows for an undergraduatecourse. Only when the pool of Universitycandidates is "exhausted" can faculty hireteaching fellows from outside Harvard...
This dilemma was evident in the November revelation that Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 had attempted to swap a $500,000 gift in exchange for University Officer status. The K-School, with only a small pool of alumni but ever-expanding programs, badly needed the money to bolster the school's loan forgiveness program. Administrators let the demands of fundraising overshadow Harvard's ethical guidelines...
...hiring. According to a report by the Minority Students Alliance, the University has failed to aggressively recruit Black, Asian and Hispanic scholars. Since 1980, the number of Black tenured professors has fallen from five to three, while junior professor positions have been reduced from eight to four. Admittedly, the pool of qualified Ph.d. candidates is small, but the University has made scant attempts to grab a bigger share of the pool or increase the size of the pool...
Administrators from President Bok to FAS's Equal Employment Opportunity Officer have recognized Harvard's serious shortage of minority professors, but they contend that the pool of available job applicants is the primary reason for the problem...