Word: whitla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first comprehensive study, showing wide differences in the demographic composition of the Houses, was completed in January 1982 by Dean K.Whitla director of the Office of Instructional Research Among Whitla's findings were that, at the time the study was conducted, Blacks made up 21 and 12 percent of Currier and Leverett Houses, respectively, compared to less than three percent of Kirkland and Leverett Houses, respectively, compared to less than three percent of Kirkland and Eliot...
...Whitla's study also revealed that while athletes comprised just under hall of Kirkland House, they made up less than 5 percent of Adams House...
College administrators reacted to Whitla's study with concern and suggestions for reform of the system In a letter accompanying the report, Dean of the College, John B. Fox Jr '59 wrote that "with respect to race and athletic participation, some Houses that all short of the ideal" House that would be a microcosm of the College...
...Whitla yesterday denied this allegation, and attributed the delay to the changing of the guard in the Dean of the Faculty's office...
...Harvard survey is handicapped by the lack of similar studies elsewhere, administrators said yesterday. "We have no comparative data in a serious way for our peers," stated Whitla...