Interesting Article about Faculty Diversity (or lack thereof) at HARVARD

Date: November 4th, 2015 5:13 PM Author: slim_shady_man 94 percent of full professors in science and engineering are white; 90 percent are male. * 91 percent of the full professors at research universities are white; 75 percent are male. * 87 percent of the full-time faculty members in the United States are white; 64 percent are male. * Only 5 percent of the full professors in the U.S. are black, Hispanic, or Native American. * The gap between the percentage of tenured men and the percentage of tenured women has not changed in 30 years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3035821&forum_id=2#29110645)

Date: November 4th, 2015 5:12 PM Author: slim_shady_man http://harvardmagazine.com/2002/03/faculty-diversity.html Women currently represent 36 percent of full-time faculty compared to 23 percent in the early 1970s. Although this represents a very substantial gain nationwide, women constitute only 25 percent of the full-time faculty at research universities, versus 10 percent in 1970. Faculty of color remain a very small part of the professoriate. (Whites constituted 95 percent of all faculty members in 1972 and 83 percent in 1997.) Most of the growth in minority participation has been by Asian Americans, from 2.2 percent in 1975 to 4.5 percent in 1997. The percentage of African-American faculty members at all levels has been remarkably stagnant--4.4 percent in 1975 and 5 percent in 1997--and almost half of all black faculty teach at historically black colleges. The increase in Hispanic faculty has also been slow: from 1.4 percent in 1975 to 2.8 percent in 1997. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3035821&forum_id=2#29110643)

HARVARD BUSINESS GRAD FLEES COUNTRY AFTER COMMITTING MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR FRAUD

Date: October 8th, 2015 8:50 AM
Author: slim_shady_man
http://www.wsj.com/articles/harvard-goldman-sachs-venture-capitalfugitive-1444261176

A boyish 43 years old, Iftikar Ahmed ticked every box of the immigrant success story, going from Harvard Business School to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and then landing as a partner at one of the oldest venture-capital firms in the country. He and his wife owned a mansion in Greenwich, Conn., and two apartments on Park Avenue in Manhattan, and gave large sums to local and Indian charities.

Yet before Mr. Ahmed fled the U.S. in May, he allegedly stole $65 million through a series of frauds that prosecutors and regulators said became increasingly brazen over the years and that exploited the trust-based culture of the venture-capital firm, Oak Investment Partners. Regulators said Mr. Ahmed began to commit fraud within months of joining Oak in 2004.


Iftikar Ahmed’s former colleagues at Norwalk, Conn.-based Oak found that he used doctored deal documents, phony exchange rates and fake invoices to siphon off millions of dollars into secret bank accounts, according to prosecutors and regulators. Oak made the discoveries only after Mr. Ahmed was arrested on insider-trading charges unrelated to his work at the firm.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011646&forum_id=2#28924689)