Word: verba
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, member of the Verba Committee...
WHEN Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence created the high-profile committee on affirmative action last spring and tapped Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53 to chair it, many students and faculty members looked to it to decisively resolve one of Harvard's stickiest problems--its failure to add minorities and women to its faculty in significant numbers...
INSTEAD of quick action, the committee proposed layer upon layer of new bureaucracy. The Verba Report makes no stinging criticisms of Harvard's recruitment policies and offers no resounding moral statements about the need to increase FAS's diversity...
...Verba Committee may have avoided the suggestion of strong measures to avoid losing the badly needed support of conservative faculty members. That is politically understandable. But in putting their recommendations in the purely administrative realm, the committee should have tried to ensure its structures would get results. An ideologue can get away with failed policy--a technocrat...
...immediate challenge facing the Verba Report is approval and implementation by the Faculty. A past affirmative action report lost its way in the Harvard bureaucracy in 1980 and has not been seen since...