Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years beginning in 1978, Harvard offered two University-wide programs that helped senior faculty members buy houses from Harvard or in the Cambridge area by providing low-interest mortgages. Some tenure track professors at schools such as the Law School also reaped benefits from these programs. Former Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg bought a Cambridge house with subsidies from Harvard before receiving tenure from the Law School...
This year alone, the NLRB has been responsible for setting the election date for Harvard's campus-wide election, determining who could participate and running the election and counting ballots, in addition to hearing the University's complaints about the election...
...Confusion and complacency dominate Harvard's minority faculty recruitment. From deans to department chairmen to the general faculty, few understand how to effectively achieve better representation, even fewer make a reasonably active effort to address the issue, and no one has a University-wide, systemic program necessary to successfully do so," the report says...
Dennis R. Thompson, the head of the University-wide program on ethics and a member of the committee, stressed that the faculty has a responsibility to increase the representation of minorities because it is "a question of justice." But he added that the faculty must also ensure existing standards of teaching excellence are preserved in the process...
...Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. dismissed the five other charges which Walters had brought against the University and rejected Walters' wide interpretation of gender discrimination. Without a ruling from Garrity, Walters could not win the wide-spread changes in facilities Maintenance hiring and disciplining practices that she had asked...