Word: steiner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...EEOC had no coercive power, so Steiner had to employ informal pressure to increase the pace of minority hiring in large concerns. He and his staff traveled to New York and Los Angeles and held widely-publicized hearings into employer racial and sex discrimination...
...Steiner worked closely with the NAACP during this time. Because the EEOC could not file suit on its own behalf, Steiner filed many "friend of the court" briefs for the black organization's Legal Defense division...
AFTER THE 1969 change in national Administrations, Steiner came back to Harvard as secretary to the special University Committee on Governance. The Committee was established following the 1969 student strike to explore new methods of administering the University...
...Fall of 1970, President Pusey appointed Steiner to the newly-formed post of general counsel to the University. He was charged with responsibility on a University-wide basis "for the legal aspects of the University's affairs...
This catch-all job description has in practice gradually expanded to include matters far removed from strictly legal considerations. In addition to watching out for Harvard's interests in contracts, insurance, local tax policy and endowment policy, Steiner must deal with the tricky problems of discipline and relations between the Faculties...