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When members of the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL) filed a complaint with the Department of Labor (DOL) last month charging the Kennedy School with violating federal affirmative action hiring codes, they vowed to "keep up the pressure" on the school. This week they kept their promise...
Charging the K-School with falsifying information in its report to DOL on hiring, WEAL told Labor officials the K-School had labeled two Black women research associates in the report as "instructional," though they'd never taught at the school. WEAL's amended complaint alleges the school "misreported" the data to boost its low percentages of women and minority faculty...
...School officials denied the charge, explaining they'd reported the women as non-teaching faculty, a label DOL sources say is accurate under departmental guidelines. They also rejected a WEAL charge that the school's five reported "firm offers" to women of faculty posts were "not firm...
Three weeks ago, the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL) filed a complaint, pending decision by the Department of Labor, charging the school with violating federal affirmative action hiring codes. The students' letter refers to the complaint and also expresses concern over the school's lack of minority and women students...
Lori Forman, chairman of the KSSA's affirmative action subcommittee, said yesterday the governing board agrees the school needs more women and minorities but has not endorsed the WEAL complaint, which charges administrators with ignoring specific federal standards on the solicitation of advice on faculty appointments...