Word: supporting
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...semester of work by this Faculty committee and over a year of work by a planning committee--as well as student efforts to talk up women's studies--the pace of change has hardly accelerated. Harvard is starting almost from scratch with only a small group of devoted supporters of women's studies. Finding interested Faculty members and the money and research material they need is the challenge the committee faces next year. The committee also hopes to keep students on its side and not allow requests for a concentration to poison the minds of faculty members whose support...
...University remained adamant about considering the boycott issue by way of traditional channels. House committee consideration and a subsequent Student Asembly call for a petition drive garnered thousands of signatures and broadened the boycott's base of support. But administrators told boycott organizers they would have to present their case before CHUL, since the Student Assembly was not yet officially recognized by the University...
...need-based and we are most generous in this regard," Keenan explains. He believes that although the system for financial grants is complex, it works and "we will stick with it." And about financial aid for minority students, Lipsky says that so far the GSAS has been able to support the minority students to whom they've offered positions, adding that many have outside money with GSAS fellowships as additional aid. "Nobody has ever been turned away for lack of funds," Lipsky says. But she acknowledges that the graduate school will eventually be unable to offer...
...Their criticism of Kilbridge extend outside the CRP to what they see is an insensitivity to the other more design-oriented departments at the school. CRP officials say Harvard's way is the way of the future. The increasing number of applicants and job opportunities for graduates seems to support their position...
...alumni and the Overseers. However, other observers within the department say Kilbridge received the strongest backing he has ever received in the last few years. Gerrald M. McCue, associate dean of the faculty of design, analyzed Kilbridge's departure, saying, "He's in a period of greater support than ever before. I suspect his motivation was to get out while he was ahead." McCue says Kilbridge's announcement was a surprise to everyone on the faculty, but "I think the logical explanation is that after some period of time, any professor in an administrative post would give up these chores...