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...minority representation in student government, as well as a debate over the best way to fund minorities' student groups. After lively debate on both sides, the constitution was eventually approved and is still in effect today. Allegations of discrimination at the University, then as now, caused controversy. Theda Skocpol, then a candidate for tenure and now the outgoing Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, accused the University of sexism, the Director of Harvard's Center for Behavioral Sciences controversially called on society to exert "negative social pressures to deter homosexuality," and Women's Studies struggled for meaningful...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Theda Skocpol said in a phone interview on Saturday that calendar reform could benefit both graduates and undergraduates...
...Theda Skocpol, who is dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and a frequently mentioned candidate, is no longer in serious consideration, the two individuals said. Skocpol resigned from her deanship at GSAS in March after just two years...
...Skocpol said that the requirement had been approved by the Graduate Policy Committee, the Committee on Graduate Education, and recommended by the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development—all groups chaired or co-chaired by Skocpol. The task force released a “compact” this past winter urging professors to give as much weight to teaching as they do to research...
...Skocpol prepares to step down from her post at the end next month, the push for universal evaluation may prove to be the last public act of her deanship...