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Currently, 5.7 percent of Yale's tenured faculty are members of ethnic minority groups, and 8.8 percent of its junior faculty are minorities, according to the Yale report. In Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, minorities compose 7 percentof the tenured faculty and 12.1 percent of thejunior professors...
Among the 23 recommendations made by the Yalecommittee are the establishment of a visitingminority professor program to provide "mentors"for potential minority academics and the creationof a standing committee to monitor departments'affirmative action efforts. The proposals must beapproved by Yale University President Benno C.Schmidt before they can be formally adopted...
Schmidt told The Yale Daily News this week thatthe report "strikes an appropriate note of graveconcern about the situation and about thedifficulty of quick and substantial programs,given the realities of the problem of availableapplicants...
...Yale committee was chaired by Professor ofPsychology Judith Rodin, who turned down theRadcliffe presidency last year...
...panel said that over the next 10 years,Yale should increase its number of tenuredminorities to 8 percent and its number of juniorfaculty to 14 percent...