Word: verba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...King is one of the most sophisticated political methodologists in the country," said Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '54. "He helps put us in the forefront on this field of political science...
...endorse the boycott as a symbolic statement. The recent Law School boycott garnered national press attention and increased pressure on the Law School dean to increase efforts toward diverse faculty. Harvard's administration--by failing to implement key recommendations of a report by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53--shows that it, too, needs such pressure to change. National exposure could also focus attention on the lack of minorities throughout academia...
Although the Harvard administration cannot immediately do everything necessary to remedy the lack of faculty diversity, that does not excuse its current lethargy. The Faculty should follow the recommendations of the Verba Report and appoint senior Faculty members in each department to be affirmative action representatives. Such a move would shake up an otherwise stagnant process...
...will succeed Y.T. Feng, who has been the Harvard College Librarian for 10 years. The College Library is the largest component of the Harvard University Library--at 11 million volumes the oldest and largest university library in the U.S.--which is under the supervision of Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba...
...something I see I can be doing in the classes I teach," says Verba, a professor in the Government Department. "I was intrigued by the specificity and reasonableness...