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Dates: during 1980-1989
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INSTEAD of quick action, the committee proposed layer upon layer of new bureaucracy. The Verba Report makes no stinging criticisms of Harvard's recruitment policies and offers no resounding moral statements about the need to increase FAS's diversity...
Under the plan, each departmental representative would draw up lists of potential minority and women tenure candidates, check hiring practices for discrimination and prepare a written report on their department every year. All departmental representatives together would form a standing committee on affirmative action--chaired by the associate dean...
...report's emphasis on structure and avoidance of measures which would make departments accountable for their deficient hiring practices sets up a wide range of possible outcomes--from substantial progess to continued smug inaction...
...best possible outcome of this report would be that Harvard would take full advantage of the structures implemented. Spence would appoint a vocal associate dean not afraid to lean on departments who do not make increasing minorities and women faculty members a priority. Faculty representatives would put affirmative action ahead of departmental parochialism and chummy loyalties. And Harvard would lead an effort by the nation's universities to encourage minorities and women to enter academic professions...
...second problem with the report is its slight of measures which would assist women faculty--including measures like childcare and expanded leave policies. The committee was criticized from the beginning for lumping women and minorities together, and committee members last week acknowleged the deficiency in their treatment of some women's issues...