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...roots of this problem--like Harvard's difficulties hiring women at the same high levels--lay in the demographics of academia in general and Harvard's tenured faculty in particular...
...adds that Asian-Americans in particular have been successful at increasing their ranks in academia, but seem to lack a presence in senior administration...
Besides the traditional excuse that academia--and especially the rarified ranks of Harvard's tenured faculty--have lacked suitable minority candidates for administrative posts, officials also point to other reasons for this problem...
...combative anti-intellectualism he developed as a Texas-bred Bush attending Ivy League schools back East. Ever since George W. left Houston to follow in his father's footsteps at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., he has viewed with deep suspicion and disdain the world of elite Northeastern academia and the people who populate it. Bush was one of the most popular students in his class at Yale. He mixed easily with the rich and the well bred, but, according to classmates, he developed an intense dislike for the class of Yalie he deemed "intellectual snobs." To Bush, the epitome...
...Ridiculous as it sounds today, Harvard University originally championed the SAT (the first major standardized test) as a means to achieving a classless society. However, the system implemented has achieved other, unintended purposes. Instead of the mechanism leading society towards utopia, testing has become an absurd beast ravaging American academia...