Word: weal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite a recent finding by the Department of Labor that the K-School's affirmative action program is proceeding at an acceptable rate, spokesmen for the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL) announced yesterday that the group, headquartered in Washington, D.C., will not drop its grievances against Harvard officials...
...WEAL leaders said a one-time shift in K-School faculty apparently led Labor officials to approve the program. But WEAL leaders charged that the one-time shift may not produce long-term results in minority hiring because the K-School's overall affirmative action plan is "vague...
...Jackson, an assistant dean of the K-School who is in charge of the school's affirmative action program, responded yesterday that the Labor Department "found no basis to WEAL's charges...
...testifying before a Senate committee several days after issuing the rebuttal, WEAL seemed to have reversed course. Carol B. Grossman, WEAL's president, told the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee that WEAL's legal complaint had pressured the school into making "improvements" that would not have come otherwise...
...Jackson '70, associate dean of the school, denied that the school's recent hirings have stemmed from the original WEAL complaint to the DOL, saying, "We are doing a better job because it's right, and because it's the law." He also criticized WEAL for downplaying the school's progress in the past year and stressed that the school has reported all its hirings properly...