Word: whitla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Minority Students Alliance (MSA) released a report last spring charging Harvard with "confusion" and "complacency" in its recruitment of minority faculty, they also said that Harvard had effectively buried an earlier report on affirmative action, the Whitla report...
Headed by Dean K. Whitla, director of the office for instructional research and evaluation, the 1980 committee called for special programs to assist potential minority scholars and for a more aggressive recruiting effort by individual departments...
...never tried to follow up to try to find out how it was put into effect," Whitla says. "Those aren't my kinds of responsibilities--mine was to do the study...
...assume that our report, like the Whitla report, will wind up on a shelf fairly shortly and that no one is going to remember it," Verba says. "That doesn't bother me as long as we have left behind something that carries on the intention of the report...
...trying to address the issues that the dean set for the committee," he says. "We have tried to address, or at least to think about what some of the difficulties are that led to the Whitla report basically being forgotten...