Tuesday’s agenda is currently available only to faculty members, but a copy obtained by the Crimson also shows two other docket items—a discussion of the recommendations of the two task forces on women faculty, and a presentation by Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Theda Skocpol on the establishment of a Graduate Policy Committee (GPC).
Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Evelynn M. Hammonds will report on the implementation of the task force recommendations.
Hammonds said she told yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty Council, FAS’s 18-member governing body, that her staff is in the process of surveying junior faculty members, as recommended by the task forces, and that the survey results will appear in the spring.
“They’re setting up and getting started and getting the staff,” said Harvard College Professor and Phillips Professor of Early American History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, who is a member of the Council.
Ulrich also said that the Faculty Council plans to meet with the Harvard Corporation in October, though she did not elaborate on the agenda for that discussion.
The Council met once with some members of the Corporation last April in the wake of the March FAS vote of no confidence in Summers’ leadership.
According to one member of the Faculty Council, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the information has not yet been officially released, the docket committee—Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, Ulrich, and Thomas—along with Cabot Professor of Social Ethics and Pforzheimer Professor Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthropology Department Chair Arthur Kleinman, and Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History Lisa M. McGirr, will represent the Faculty Council at the October meeting.
Skocpol’s discussion of the GPC is slated to follow the discussion of Harper’s resignation. The new committee, which has not yet been formed, would mirror the College’s Educational Policy Committee and would help advise Skocpol on matters of graduate education, Thomas said.
—Staff writer William C. Marra can be reached at wmarra@fas.harvard.edu.
—Staff writer Sara E. Polsky can be reached at polsky@fas.harvard.edu.