September 28, 2001
College Puts Diversity Ahead of Protocol; Job Candidate Tangles With Animal-Rights Protesters
TIME TO BREAK THE RULES? Wheaton College, in Norton, Mass., hired five black professors last year (The Chronicle, June 9, 2000), an impressive feat at a time when even elite universities have trouble attracting black professors. Everyone wondered how the tiny college had done it.
By violating its own rules, it turns out. Last fall, Gerald Zuriff, a psychology professor, charged that Wheaton had ignored faculty-search procedures in at least one hire: that of Michelle A. Harris, a
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