In the wake of the Larry Summers ruckus, The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required) reports that Harvard will spend $7.5 million over the next three years, as “part of a $50-million, 10-year plan that Harvard created last year to recruit and keep female and minority professors.” As reported by The Chronicle, most of the new policies designed to attract women seem benign if not admirable, including a full semester of paid paternity or maternity leave and increased subsidization of child-care costs. The most objectionable exception appears to be the decision to “hold a lecture series for graduate students, called ‘Harvard University Women in Science and Society,’” designed in part to help create a climate of diversity and tolerance at Harvard. But when one reads the actual report issued by the new office of “Faculty Development and Diversity,” there appears to be cause for greater concern, as it aims to initiate “a systematic review of faculty hiring practices at each School and facilitate improvements to those practices in order to broaden and diversify our applicant pools and faculty hires.”