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Gates also served as chief-of-staff to the vice chancellor and provost and acted as associate director of the NYU Africana Studies Program and The Institute of African-American affairs...
First, the University has already said that it will create a new position—a senior vice provost for diversity and faculty development—to increase diversity in the faculty. This decision is a mistake. We support the ends this vice provost will try to meet, but we do not support the means. The creation of this position has the unfortunate effect of letting everyone else involved in the tenure process ignore diversity as such considerations become the responsibility of one person. Every department should be considering diversity when it comes to giving tenure to faculty, not just...
Moreover, the creation of the vice provost position may cast a negative light on minority and women hires, as some may view these hires as less prestigious. Tenure decisions must evaluate all candidates on their own qualifications, experiences, perspectives, and what they would bring to Harvard; race and sex should be a part of this evaluation process...
...task force got very excited about the idea,” Provost Steven E. Hyman told The Crimson last April. “Undergraduates kind of give life to everything...
...move to further centralize University activities in Mass. Hall, Provost Steven E. Hyman said last week that three vice-provost positions will be created in order to ease the burden on the Provost’s office, with two of those positions possibly being filled by September...