Word: reporter
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...Association of Black Faculty and Administrators presents a report to the University asking for improvements in minority hiring. The report, written by Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell, calls for 10 percent minority representation within Harvard's faculty and staff by 1990. While Harvard officials say they agree with the tone of the Bell Report, they say they have their own plans for affirmative action and, for the first time, announce numerical goals for minority and women hiring...
...Corporation and Board of Overseers approve a report calling on companies to withdraw from South Africa. They do not, however, modify the current University policy of divesting only from those companies that do not follow the Sullivan Principles of selective divestment. Activists, members of the faculty, alumni and the student advisory committee to the Harvard Corporation complain that the step is merely symbolic...
...members of the Board of Overseers meet to criticize some of the Young Report's recommendations, saying that the proposed reforms would stifle diversity on the Board. One overseer describes the plan as "a plane with a big hole in the fuselage...
...Verba Committee on affirmative action issues a report recommending the creation of a standing committee on affirmative action, the appointment of a senior professor in each department to address hiring issues and the installment of a new associate dean for affirmative action...
...Radcliffe sources report that Rodin has removed her name from consideration for the Radcliffe post. The Crimson also reveals that at least three other candidates on a short list of six have removed themselves from consideration, including Harvard Law School Professor Martha L. Minow...