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Some colleagues say Vorenberg's commitment to academic diversity is most clearly seen in his support for the clinical studies program, which supplements classroom work with hands-on advocacy experience. Having started its clinical studies program in the early 1970s, Harvard is widely regarded as a pioneer in the field. The program has evolved and, under Vorenberg, grown over the years; currently it includes such projects as a legal aid clinic to help AIDS patients...
...Under Dean Vorenberg's leadership this law school became the major center of clinical legal education in the country," says Professor of Law Lance M. Liebman...
These individual plans for expansion at the Law School are components of Vorenberg's broader program to bolster the size and heterogeneity of the faculty, a change the outgoing dean says is necessary to offer better educational opportunities...
...Since Vorenberg was named dean, about one-third of the current faculty has been appointed, he says. And the dean's "very serious" commitment to diversity is also reflected in the number of women and minority professors who have been tenured during the past eight years, Liebman notes...
...Harvard Association of Black Faculty and Administrators, co-chaired by Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell, awarded Vorenberg the C. Clyde Fergusen Award for his "contributions to enhancing diversity in the Harvard community." The group cited a 50 percent increase of minority representation on the Law School's faculty and staff...