Word: whitla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reports--which break down each course's enrollment by sex, year of graduation, and concentration--"invite professors to be as equitable as possible" by showing them whether they differ significantly from University-wide norms, Dean K. Whitla, director of the office, said yesterday...
Letters accompanying the reports do not urge professors who award higher grades to toughen their standards, Whitla said, adding that the Faculty Council--which urges him to disseminate the information--"wanted simply to provide information, not to give advice." He said that "It's an individual faculty member's own responsibility to determine his own grading policies...
...Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation and coordinator of the study, said recently the report does not give names of the Houses because "the real intellectual issue is: "Are the differences among the Houses greater than we should have in this community...
...that, Dean K. Whitla, director of the office of instructional research and evaluation, and the group helping him with the study, broke down the hiring process into four steps and studied each to determine where minorities are getting bumped. Those steps are advertising the opening in professional journals and sending letters to department chairmen at other universities asking them to notify graduates; compiling a long list--15 to 144 names--of applicants; selecting the five to seven most promising candidates from that long list; and making offers...
What, then, did Whitla and company see as the reason for the absence of minorities on search lists? In a word, demographics--the number of qualified minority candidates is very small because few minorities choose academic careers. In essence, the problem lies much deeper than Harvard's minority Faculty statistics indicate; it is a problem, the report implies, that affects higher education in general...