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Widespread discrimination. While the last few years have seen advances in hiring, a huge disparity in income persists for most minorities (average Black family income in 1987 was 56 percent of average white family income). In addition, the number of minorities entering academia is drastically low. Harvard can do much to change this--tutor posts offer a first step in academic careers, and minority tutors can serve as role models for minority students considering such careers...
Because of their academic problems, D'Souza suggested, these students may conclude that the curriculum itself is biased to their disadvantage, and may join in demands for abolishing accepted canons of academia in favor of a more culturally-diverse curriculum...
These same criticisms apply to Harvard's half-hearted efforts to attract women and minority scholars. Harvard must do more to fill up the pipeline with women and minority graduate students. By making academic professions more attractive to potential scholars, Harvard can help make academia more diverse...
While provost at Princeton, Rudenstine earned a reputation for being receptive to unconventional scholarship yet meticulous in upholding academic standards. Since his appointment, he has repeatedly emphasized the importance of attracting minorities into academia. He has announced his commitment to bolstering undergraduate education at Harvard (and said he hopes to teach a freshman seminar next spring). He has discussed the importance of University unity, the need for an overall educational mission, his aversion to absolute administrative decentralization. He plans to appoint a provost, a University-wide dean responsible for coordinating Harvard's atomized parts...
While CNN correspondent Peter Arnett slaved away in his hotel room in Baghdad, providing what was then the only--albeit censored--reports from inside Iraq, he obviously hadn't forgotten the fairer pleasures of American academia. If you look carefully at a post-war photograph printed in a recent Boston Globe, you can discern the writing on Arnett's partially-obscured sweatshirt: "Harvard and Radcliffe...