Word: academia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student programs are not enough, says Perez, adding that more needs to be done both to hire minority faculty members and to entice minority students to enter academia. Perez is a member of the Minority Students Alliance, which earlier this year produced a study calling for a reevaluation of Harvard's minority hiring goals. He says that Chicanos and other minorities on campus have no role models in the faculty...
Working in a traditional labor activist role, Ruddick represents a second generation of activist. Her mother and father protested the Vietnam War in the 1960s before returning to academia in New York, where Ruddick grew...
...fact that teaching fellows may not beexperts, however, does not trouble John. who findsthe word "expert" inappropriate in academia in thefirst place. "It's not being an expert that'simportant," he says. "A willingness to engage thematerial is what makes the difference in atutorial or a section. That [willingness]translates well to the students and helps themlearn...
...report and several minority professors say that the University must abandon its mentality of "passive recruitment." They say that the low overall numbers of minorities in academia exacerbate the difficulty Harvard faces, but they argue that the primary responsibility lies with insufficient efforts to reverse this trend on the part of the University...
...long-term solution to the problem is enticing more minorities to enter academia. In the last few months Harvard has launched programs to attract minorities to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), both at Harvard and across the country...