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...income gap are drastically increasing the rift between the haves and the have-nots, students’ access, or lack thereof, to educational resources is playing a greater role in determining their academic futures. Though there is often an overlap in the communities that ethnic and socioeconomic diversification aim to serve, considering only ethnic diversity is an incomplete answer to the problem of homogeneity in the academic community. Rather, administrators and admissions officers need to realize that both ethnicity and socioeconomic status serve pivotal roles in students’ experiences and henceforth the development of their personalities, thoughts and viewpoints...
...Rowley takes aim at what she characterized as Mueller's assertion after September 11 that the FBI may have been able to prevent the attack if it had had advanced warning. She said that she made numerous efforts before writing this letter, dated May 21 of this year, to make it clear that there had, indeed, been such a warning. She attributes the revisionism of FBI leaders to a "circle the wagons" mentality "in an apparent effort to protect the FBI from embarrassment and the relevant FBI officials from scrutiny...
...extra points when they apply. Harvard’s program, carefully crafted by former President Bok with the help of federal attorneys, treats race as one criterion among many that may give equally qualified candidates that extra “boost” to gain admission. Both systems aim to increase campus diversity, and both should be protected by the Constitution...
Brown also said that reports authored by Hogan also did not aim to cover up any problems with California’s deregulated market—as HarvardWatch’s report claimed...
...order to walk in GRADUATION ceremonies at 14 Los Angeles-area high schools this June, seniors must provide school officials with proof they will ATTEND COLLEGE or trade school, enroll in the military or take on an apprenticeship or other training. Administrators say the aim is to show students their post-high school options. Some students have objected to the PRESSURE, and civil libertarians are considering a suit. But the policy seems to be working: 95% of the seniors have committed to postsecondary plans so far, up from 54% last year...