Responding to a report that sharply criticized Yale's record on affirmative action, the university's president has outlined a five-year plan to recruit minority professors.

A number of Yale's minority professors have been recruited by other universities in the last few years.

It has added 77 new minority professors, 40 of them black, in the past two years.

In 1988, the university hired 24 minority professors of varying rank, believed to be the single largest increase ever for a university in this country.

The movement is not about recruiting minority professors; it is about education.

But Dean Clark insisted that the school is moving to recruit more women and minority professors as quickly as it can find them.

A minority professor teaching the course then filed a complaint on the ground that the comment was unfair and hurt her chances for tenure.

The coalition called for tenure for two minority professors who had been denied it.

The bigger problems, he said, were "sins of omission" in allowing minority professors to feel unwelcome.

The 20 minority professors include 14 blacks, 4 Asians and 2 Hispanics.