Posted on 06/14/2006 3:24:28 AM PDT by Pharmboy
A year after Harvard's president, Lawrence H. Summers, promised a major effort to make the faculty more diverse amid a controversy about his remarks about women in science, a university report released yesterday indicated that most of the work remained to be done.
Women represent considerably less than half of the faculty in all but one of Harvard's schools, and while the number of women in tenure-track positions grew slightly from the last academic year to the current one, women still make up a small fraction of the university's tenured professors.
These were among the findings in the first report from the Office for Faculty Development and Diversity, which Dr. Summers established at Harvard in May 2005. He also pledged to spend at least $50 million over the next decade to improve the university's efforts to recruit and promote women and minorities.
Dr. Summers announced the initiatives after months of controversy over his remarks suggesting that "intrinsic aptitude" could help explain why fewer women than men reached the highest ranks of science and math in universities.
Much of the data in the report was assembled to highlight where women and minority members had been making progress and where efforts and resources needed to be concentrated, said Evelynn M. Hammonds, senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity, in a preface to the 49-page document.
Dr. Hammonds's post was also created last year by Dr. Summers, who announced in February after a renewed clash with the faculty that he would leave office at the end of this month.
Dr. Hammonds said in a telephone interview, "I think what's important about what happened this year is that the university made a serious effort to address these issues."
In the report she wrote: "By some measures, we are not out of line with
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My Dad always used to say "you can always tell a Harvard man...but you can't tell him much".
Affirmative action has insured there are too many women on the Harvard faculty. Some women have academic talent but for most their real field of genius is giving birth, raising children and keeping a proper house.
"Women on Faculty Still Lag at Harvard, Report Finds"
I guess the 'tards should hire some !@#$@!%$ tutors, then.
Oh, boy, is that ever a best of the web tip waiting to happen. Paging James Taranto!
And the headline is almost a caricature of the classic Times' headline: "Giant Meteor to Hit Earth and End Life; Women and Minorities Especially Affected"
Random media ping...
They should reduce it further by disbanding the Womyn's Studies Dept, and sending the faculty home to cook meals and do laundry.
The victors write the history. Larry can expect to have all of Harvard's ills blamed on him for the next ten years.
Every well-liked assistant professor who is denied tenure faces the same fate. Just a few years later it turns out they were complete screwups and major jerks.
You also have the documented fact that the male bell curve extends further in both directions.
Did not a bunch of Harvard women kick out the President of Harvard for insensitive remarks? I believe that he quoted solid statistical facts.
Yes--that would be Larry Summers who questioned that there might be some innate differences in mathematical ability between men and women.
Larry Summers blew it ... by apologizing and agreeing to fund women's studies.
He should have stood his ground.
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A year after Harvard's president, Lawrence H. Summers, promised a major effort to make the faculty more diverse amid a controversy about his remarks about women in science, a university report released yesterday indicated that most of the work remained to be done."
Whatever happened to the idea of taking the most qualified person regardless of race or sex?
That went out when the victimology crowd came in.
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