Word: weal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WEAL members said Labor officials approved the K-School plan because the University recently transferred its City and Regional Planning program from the Graduate School of Design (GSD) to the K-School. The shift brought several women and minority faculty members from the GSD to the K-School...
Jeanne Atkins, staff attorney for WEAL, said the transfer does not guarantee that the K-School will maintain an increased commitment to minority hiring. "Our concern is that they will not learn to improve unless they learn to reach out beyond the walls of Harvard," she said...
...local division of the Department of Labor this summer issued a notification of the government's findings on WEAL's complaint. The report states that a "recent improvement in the numbers of women and minority faculty satisfy any questions raised by the complaint...
...WEAL initiated its complaints against the K-School in October of 1980 under federally-mandated affirmative action guidelines for government contractors. Because of it's federal funding, the University is considered a federal contractor under the guidelines...
...WEAL spokesman said the Labor Department's findings on the WEAL grievances reflect "what seems to be the current Reagan administration stances." "The Reagan administration has been reluctant to press private institutions on affirmative action," the spokesman said