Word: recruited
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...instance, has no female senior faculty, the Chemistry Department has one out of 18 and the Economics Department has two out of 35. There are of course, fewer women in these fields to begin, but with such a severe gender imbalance it becomes increasingly difficult for Harvard to recruit and identify the top female scientists in these fields. Even without conscious discrimination, these male-dominated departments linked to male-dominated social and academic networks tend to inevitably underestimate the contributions of females—not to mention discourage rising female candidates from pursuing academic careers...
Huth says that if a woman is highly qualified but does not fit the job description precisely, the physics department still “moves rapidly” in order to try to recruit the female professor, who is termed a “target of opportunity...
Harris is particularly receptive to the emphasis on younger female hires because young professors are more likely to uproot. “We’re more willing to make an offer to younger women because it’s hard to recruit women who are established professors and have a family,” Harris says...
...College is thankfully taking steps to recruit new voices to speak on behalf of the student body. Following the year-long tenure of Zachary A. Corker ’04 as assistant to the dean for special programming, the College is creating the Harvard College Fellowship for Campus Life—a one-year position available only to graduating seniors. The new fellowship will resemble Corker’s role—an attempt to build an effective bridge between students and the administration to improve Harvard’s oft-bemoaned social life...
...change could mean difficulty for Harvard’s new drive to recruit low-income students. Research indicates that students and their families often overestimate the cost of college and that eligible students are not applying for federal financial aid out of confusion over the process. Discouragement about the cost of attending college could deter academically qualified students from taking standardized tests and seeking information about higher education—two disturbing factors that allow such students to fly under the radar of recruitment efforts at Harvard and other universities...