Word: woman
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Diversity, as many have said, was a unifying theme for the year, if there is such a thing. From the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' latest wave of soul-searching about affirmative action to the appointment of the first woman to the Harvard Corporation, the University's seven-member chief governing board, the incorporation and accommodation of difference marked both faculty and administration. Whether it was the English Department's wrangling over the inclusion of new fields or the Board of Overseers' bitter election campaign, the politics of diversity were ubiquitous...
When the Harvard Corporation--traditionally composed of seven white men--appointed Judith Richards Hope as its first woman member this February, observers were cautious to avoid labeling the move as a genuine step toward opening up the University's top governing board...
Since Andrew Heiskell announced more than three years ago that he would be stepping down from the Corporation, students and faculty had called on the self-perpetuating body to name a woman or minority as his replacement, a decision they said would bring the 339-year-old body much-needed new perspective...
Known by colleagues as the "consummate Washington insider," Hope served in the Ford Administration and held top posts in several Republican presidential campaigns. As a Harvard Law School-educated attorney specializing in transportation law, she was the first woman to serve on the executive committee of her firm...
...think that there will be a change in perhaps subtle ways in having a woman on the Corporation," said Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner...