Word: verba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Verba is, at age 57, the consummate faculty insider, a professor to whom deans have repeatedly turned for help in solving some of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' stickiest problems...
When the Core Curriculum was first being implemented in the early 1980s, then-Dean of the Faculty Rosovsky called on Verba to ease the transistion, naming him associate dean for undergraduate education...
...when the library system, facing a severe crunch as the burgeoning supply of books outstrips available storage facilities, needed a new director, who did the dean turn to? Verba, of course. He was named to the job in 1984 as soon as his term as associate dean ended...
...With Verba's ever-lengthening list of faculty positions, it was no surprise that Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence tapped the government scholar to chair a committee charged with proposing a new affirmative action strategy at a time when only about 8 percent of FAS' tenured faculty are women and 7 percent are minorities...
...trouble with this university is if they give you a miserable and thankless job, the only reward they ever give you is a more miserable and thankless job," quips Verba...