"In both cases they are the kind of professionals that would fit well as members of the tenured faculty."

Harvard's current tenured faculty of 64 professors includes five women and three blacks, but no black woman.

But women make up a considerably smaller portion of the tenured faculty in these schools and disciplines.

In 1981, the tenured faculty of 56 included one black and one woman.

The cuts in tenured faculty are to be made through attrition.

He acts as gatekeeper for all appointments to the tenured faculty.

In the law school, women make up 8.9 percent of tenured faculty.

Harvard is an institution run for the benefit of the tenured faculty, as Summers discovered too late.

Remember, this was during a time when presidents were having to let tenured faculty go.

Two years ago he vowed to remain on an unpaid leave until the law school hired a black woman for its tenured faculty.