Word: reporters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest draft audit report, HEW charges the SPH with mismanagement of almost half of the $37.1 million the school received in the three-year period under investigation. Throughout the text of the document, HEW officials charge Harvard with sloppy and insufficient record-keeping and faulty supervision of expenditures...
Although the McCree report urged haste in hiring tenured professors, Afro-Am found itself the center of controversy again in 1975, when department members and students charged the University with racism and discrimination in its decision not to offer tenure to Ephraim Isaacs, then associate professor of Afro-American Studies. Isaacs had been recommended for tenure by the department in 1971; four years later, President Bok accepted an ad hoc committee's decision not to offer Isaacs tenure...
...McCree report pointed up one of the possible reasons for such rejection in its 1972 study--a perception on the part of tenure candidates that the department does not receive full support from the Harvard community. The report noted: "One of the problems of attracting eminent black and white scholars to the department is the fact that they have earned acceptance in 'conventional' disciplines at other institutions which they would not want to forsake by going to a department which appears to be 'on trial' and/of accorded second-class status at Harvard." Rosovsky notes that this attitude is still...
...Department, not surprisingly, is in charge. Out in the Midwest, where soft-spoken graduate students plant hybrid crops and try to improve harvest yields, big brother is the Department of Agriculture. And here at Harvard, where the lion's share of federal funds is funnelled into medical research, people report to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
...they've been learning the hard way. A couple of years ago, 10 men from the regional HEW office descended on the budget office--and didn't leave for 18 months. When they finally packed up their calculators and balance sheets, and issued the first part of their draft report, nobody offered to throw any going-away parties. In a document released last April, HEW charged the school with questionable expenditure of $2.5 million and challenged the school's techniques for recording more than $15 million in salaries and wages. And auditing was an exciting subject once again...