Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With its report expected in the next few weeks, Verba's committee on women and minorities in the faculty has generated more than its share of controversy since commissioned last spring by Spence. And the challenge now, observers say, is whether Verba can make the conclusions of his report stick...
When the Minority Students Alliance (MSA) released a report last spring charging Harvard with "confusion" and "complacency" in its recruitment of minority faculty, they also said that Harvard had effectively buried an earlier report on affirmative action, the Whitla report...
...recommendations of the 1980 committee were never implemented, and many department chairs interviewed by MSA last spring did not even remember the report...
...assume that our report, like the Whitla report, will wind up on a shelf fairly shortly and that no one is going to remember it," Verba says. "That doesn't bother me as long as we have left behind something that carries on the intention of the report...
...although the Verba report has yet to be released, many say that the government professor's experience with the ins and outs of the Harvard bureaucracy will help once the report's conclusions are debated before the full Faculty later this spring...