#Harvard medical school employed its first female faculty member in 1919. Alice Hamilton went there from Jane Addams' Hull-House, where she had been a key contributor to their enormous and varied reform efforts.
When Hamilton retired from Harvard in 1935, it would be another 10 yrs before women were allowed enroll as students, ie 26 yrs after they recognized a woman as bright enough to teach there. The gap between bureaucracy and intelligent action as ever been vast.
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A few weeks ago, a former #Harvard misinformation researcher named #Joan#Donovan filed a whistleblower complaint against the university.
It accused officials there of bowing to tech giant #Meta when she was ousted from her position last year following a $500 million donation from the charity of Meta CEO Mark #Zuckerberg, who famously launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room.
Donovan had been working on a project involving documents leaked by former Facebook employee Frances #Haugen.
She then became known as a whistleblower herself.
Harvard denies Donovan’s accusations, but the fallout spotlights 👉the influence Big Tech can have on academic institutions.
The "Tech Transparency Project" analyzed this issue in a recent report titled
🔸“Zuckerberg and Meta Reach Deep Into Academia.”🔸
Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Katie Paul, director of the Tech Transparency Project, about the report.
She said industry money can come with "strings attached."
"Harvard, in particular, has been at the center of these battleground narratives — one about “unqualified” Black leadership and the other by students who believe below-average Blacks have taken their spots."
Denying the existence of a racist facet to the Claudine Gay story is also a mistake. #uspol#harvard#diversity