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Harvard still lags in supporting women.(NEWSWATCH)
A year after Harvard president Lawrence Summers announced a major effort to make faculty more diverse, the school still has a lot of work to do, according to a recent 49-page report.
The first report from Harvard's new Office for Faculty Development and Diversity found that women still make up a small fraction of Harvard's tenured professors and represent far less than half of the faculty at all but one of Harvard's schools. In the report, Evelynn Hammonds, senior vice-provost for faculty development and diversity, notes that: "By some measures, we are not out of line with our peers. However, other data shows that some schools and departments still have a lot of work to do."
While Harvard's proportion of women on the tenure track in the ...
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