Word: verba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year when the Harvard Affirmative Action Plan showed a significant gap between tenure and tenure-track women faculty members in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the available pool, and the Verba Report called for a stepped-up effort to recruit women scholars, Radcliffe appointed a president that believes that there is a small pool of qualified women scholars, and that this small pool is "a significant factor" in Harvard's low rate of tenure for women faculty...
...Verba, though, doesn't spend his timequestioning the Harvard system. He is too much apart...
Besides his interest in social and politicalequality, Verba says he manages to gainintellectual stimulation from his position aslibrary director...
...Verba's many different faculty roles comeat a price, as far as some student activists areconcerned. They say that, because of Verba'sinsider status, he relied too much on the goodwillof faculty members in proposing affirmative actionguidelines...
...Verba, the student of the Harvardbureaucracy, cedes the point. "I said that wasabsolutely true, that there was no way in whichyou can really force people to do things in asystem such as ours," Verba says...