Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...following are excerpts from the preliminary report of the Committee on the University and the City which was released early this month. The committee, composed of ten members from ten separate faculties, was chaired by James Q. Wilson, professor of Government...
When the Rosovsky report finally appeared last week, the speculation ended abruptly. The report recommended a degree-granting program in Afro-American studies. But the proposed new department turned out to be one of the least radical suggestions the committee made. In its wide-ranging attack on problems of black student life at Harvard, the report amazed many observers who had expected only minimal concessions to strong black demands...
...pressure they faced in determining Harvard's position. It is easy to forget Harvard's proverbial position as leader of the nation's educational circles. But in contrast to the light publicity given Yale's and Cornell's trailblazing efforts last year, innundative press coverage has followed the Rosovsky report...
THERE IS, however, one glaring omission in the report's otherwise-tight scheme. The crucial question of student participation in staff selection for the new department has been scrupulously evaded in the report itself, and Dean Ford apparently hopes to guide the report through the Faculty without saying anything too specific about how much voice black students will have in choosing--or rejecting--potential appointees. Informal agreements for "student consultations" have reportedly been arranged, but Ford owes it to the Faculty and to the students to make his position clear here. He should either present a convincing case for excluding...
...report makes some of its most important proposals in the section on University-Community relations. With sharper focus than the Wilson Committee, the report urges the University to reconsider the "morality" of its hiring, real estate, and investment policies. That reconsideration is over-due. While trying to mend its internal racial problems, Harvard should also see what its investment and hiring policies can do to help racial equality outside its walls...