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&lt;p style=&quot;margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;By the end of 2009, Harvard will have joined the growing number of universities instituting a Diversity Officer to look at their faculty and staff diversity ratio. Effective December 30, Tuft&#39;s Executive Director of Institutional diversity, Lisa M. Coleman will join Harvard as Chief Diversity Officer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;embeddedObject&quot; src=&quot;http://content.screencast.com/users/vault.com/folders/Jing/media/f0afcab7-6f12-4d3e-a651-e0299e3a1ae5/2009-12-16_1503.png&quot; alt=&quot;diversity&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; height=&quot;250&quot;&gt;The announcement comes on the heels of many months of diversity-related controversies at Harvard including then-President Larry Summers comment about women having a less aptitude for science and math, and recent cases of racial profiling by the university&#39;s police.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;While the last few years have seen the ranks for women and minorities rise among Harvard&#39;s faculty--female faculty grew by 16% while minority faculty grew by 23% since 2003--the accompanying controversies have ended up downplaying these efforts. It will now be up to Ms. Coleman to do some damage control.&lt;/p&gt;

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