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...these larger numbers of women gain the experience and publishing records the University expects of its tenured faculty, administrators say, more and more women will recieve tenure. Still, administrators like Nancy Randolph, special assistant to the president for affirmative action, caution that the process of assimilating women into tenured spots will be protracted and gradual. "You're not going to get a significant percentage change for many, many, many years," especially with the slow pace at which tenure spots are vacated, Randolph says. John D. Montgomery, chairman of the Government Department, also notes that many women with Ph.D...
...that standard they won't discuss." She adds of many department members, who initiate the tenure process with their deliberations. "They argue that academic excellence is the only criterion for tenure. Things like role models and general contributions to the intellectual community are not what they see as valid." Randolph notes that though "we like to think service to the community is important... it's not going to have any importance when it comes to tenure. There is something unfair about this system...
...which, along with ten other departments, were "underutilizing" women, according to the University's most recent affirmative action report to the Department of Labor--one female professor argues that primarily male departments perceive values that would be desirable in a male, like assertiveness, as unappealing traits in female candidates. Randolph, too, believes that male professors are not always likely to share the interests of women candidates-making women candidates not seem "particularly valuable...
...Some of these targets we know we aren't ever going to meet," Nancy P. Randolph, special assistant to the president and the University's affirmative action officer says, adding that non- competitive salaries and a lack of intensive recruiting are factors in Harvard's poor performance level...
Both Bok and Randolph contend that the federal regulations requiring annually negotiated targets require cumbersome procedures unnecessary to a sound affirmative action policy...