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That group whose members are pushing for vigorous review of other lottery option seems to include Fox, Assistant Dean Thomas A. Dingman '67 and Dean K. Whitla, director of the office of instructional research and evaluation who conducted both demographic studies...
Though racial gaps have closed somewhat over the last four years. Whitla's study projects nearly a sixfold difference between the House with the greatest percentage of Blacks (Currier, with 13 33 percent) and the one with the least (Eliot with 2 31 percent...
...There is a certain vindictiveness about the Slack-Porter argument," says Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation and the longest standing member of Harvard's admissions committee. Whitla, who has enjoyed periodic research support from ETS, made a statement in 1962 that Slack and Porter now take pleasure in quoting: "If this thesis [that SAT scores can be increased by an intensive tutoring program] were to be proved true, its proof would challenge the validity and essential purposes for which the test was constructed." Today, Whitla says, Harvard is continuing its standard practice...
Slack and Porter endorse what Whitla describes as a growing reliance on Achievement Tests at Harvard and other schools. But they warn that too much emphasis on these exams--which test knowledge of individual academic subjects on terms dictated by ETS and the College Board if teachers felt compelled to prepare students specifically for the achievements. The answer for Slack and Porter is one that admissions offices and ETS would consider a step backwards: abandon the SAT, use other standardized exams to a limited extent, and place even more stock in high school grades and recommendations...
...spring 1980, Dean Rosovsky commissioned a report on the recruitment of minority and women Faculty members. A group headed by Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Institutional Research and Evaluation, worked throughout the summer and produced a report in fall 1980 that provided statistics on hiring of minorities and women in the Faculty and made several recommendations for increasing their numbers. Those recommendations have been or are being implemented...