The Settlement

Minority Hiring

Tenure a Black woman by fall 1988.

Hire 20 "diverse" professors, with seven to be Black and four to be Black women.

Student Role in Hiring

Give students a role in both the appointments and minority search committees.

Encouraging Minority Students to Teach

Create a fellowship to train "diverse students" for careers in law school teaching.

Encourage minority students to go into teaching, through an annual meeting with the dean and a mentor system.

Encouraging Minority Faculty to Come to Boston

Encourage minority professors to move to the Boston area and "facilitate their transition to Harvard and the Boston area."

Appointing Bell as Dean

Appoint Professor Derrick Bell as the Law School dean.

Minority Faculty Recruitment

Recruit minority professors more aggressively and create an advisory board of delegates from law students' and lawyers' organizations representing minorities and women.

Express a commitment to diversity and non-discrimination.

In selecting faculty, "appraise appropriately diverse legal experiences and scholarship."

Tenure for Ogletree

Give Professor Charles Ogletree "a reasonable tenure offer."

Courses to Reflect Minority & Women's Issues

"Diversify the curriculum to reflect the experience of people of color and women," especially in first-year courses. Vorenberg's Reply

Minority Hiring

Agreed to "continue to give high priority to minority hiring," but no pledge to meet hiring quotas or deadlines.

Student Role in Hiring

Will "look into" meeting with "specific student committees" but opposes putting students on the appointments committee.

Encouraging Minority Students to Teach

Will ask Byrne Professor of Administrative Law Clark Byse, who counsels students on law teaching, to encourage and inform minority students interested in teaching careers. The school will "consider the feasibility of' creating a fellowship like the one demanded.

Encouraging Minority Faculty to Come to Boston

Says he recognizes "the importance of helping prospective minority faculty members to deal with special problems related to living in the Boston-Cambridge-Harvard area."

Appointing Bell as Dean

That it is beyond his power or the faculty's to appoint any new Law School dean.

Minority Faculty Recruitment

Will "propose to the faculty that it renew its 1982 statement on the importance of minority appointments."

Tenure for Ogletree

"That matters related to specific faculty appointments are confidential and could not be discussed."

Courses to Reflect Minority & Women's Issues

"That he would seek ways to improve communication between students and faculty about the inclusion of issues important to minority groups in first-year courses."