"Harvard is a premier research university, so we attract strong candidates for Faculty positions, but a lot of minority people are fairly new to the program," Shinagel says. "Many institutions are bidding for a very limited pool."
In addition, Faculty members of color are in high demand for many other non-academic positions and are asked to contribute in many spheres of life both at Harvard and outside.
"I think it's fair to say that [Faculty members] of color are stretched very thin," Dingman says.
Still, Lewis says when it comes to finding candidates who are interested in the position, Faculty members are frequently too busy for the job--minority and non-minority candidates alike.
"Members of underrepresented groups are particularly overburdened by other demands on their time, but it is a general fact that--in spite of the rewards of being at the head of a community of 450 or so undergraduates--many Faculty who would be desirable candidates as masters simply tell us that they cannot manage any more commitments on their time," Lewis writes.
Building Momentum
And the AAC's work has not gone unnoticed.
Read more in News
Dershowitz Sabbatical To Include Court TV StintRecommended Articles
-
MSA Sends Letter To LewisThe Minority Student Alliance (MSA) called for greater minority sensitivity in the appointment of masters for Cabot House and Pforzheimer
-
Administration Sends Letter on Alcohol PolicyIn a move some house masters say might centralize the dissemination of Harvard's alcohol policy, house masters have been asked
-
Eck, Austin Named New Lowell MastersAs a graduate student in the 1970s, Diana L. Eck cited her desire to pursue doctoral research in India when
-
Academic Affairs Committee Discusses House Master DiversityAt its first meeting since last spring, the student-composed Academic Affairs Committee (AAC) met last night to discuss the question
-
Racial Diversity Lacking Among House MastersDespite Harvard's particular institutional pride in the diversity of its student body, in the roughly 75 years that the House
