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...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...
...feeling was that that is the one profession that doesn't have any kind of an introduction," Dean K. Whitla, director of the Danforth Center, said yesterday. "Most teaching fellows have been successful students and graduate students but have had little experience at the teaching end. We feel that it is important not just to know ideas, but to be able to present them," he added...
That the Faculty needs to increase its minority representation is not news, say administrators. In the most recent effort to add minority to the faculty ranks, Dean Rosovsky last summer set up a committee to determine the numbers and percentages of minority faculty at other universities. Dean K. Whitla, director of the office of instructional research and evaluation, who chairs the committee, says so far the group has discovered that the problem of locating minority faculty is universal. But Whitla credits the Black Students Association, not the race relations committee or report, for putting on the pressure that...
That the Faculty needs to increase its minority representation is not news, say administrators. In the most recent effort to add minority to the faculty ranks, Dean Rosovsky last summer set up a committee to determine the numbers and percentages of minority faculty at other universities. Dean K. Whitla, director of the office of instructional research and evaluation, who chairs the committee, says so far the group has discovered that the problem of locating minority faculty is universal. But Whitla credits the Black Students Association, not the race relations committee or report, for putting on the pressure that...