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...poor self-image, singing in broken English.' And from 1963 to 1973 the black community abandoned the blues. The audience became white, and that was a tragedy." These are claims black and white blues lovers might question. But in an effort to show goodwill, Tigrett is trying to broaden the audience for the music he loves. HOB provides high-school seniors with college scholarships in the arts, underwrites a resident-artist program for blues musicians to present workshops to kids, and supports a training center for teachers interested in the blues...
Rodrik said that over the last few years, the Kennedy School has used recruitment of top scholars to broaden its focus and put itself on the map as the premier institution for public policy both in the United States and the world...
Throughout history, overly narrow definitions of community have led us to commit unspeakable crimes against people we should have regarded as fellow human beings. Today, these narrow definitions continue to result in the exclusion of those who represent our nation's future. Instead, we must broaden and deepen our conceptions of community. This work is not easy (it is certainly much easier to write about than to actually do), but it is well worth the effort. It holds out the promise of a new and stronger sense of social identity that we can bring with us into the next century...
...admitted only to Oberlin's conservatory. Asking the other schools for suggestions about improving his chances for admission, he received terse written replies from Swarthmore and Yale. But from Harvard, he received an hour-long telephone call from Rosemary Green, director of transfer admissions. Green encouraged Capello to broaden his transcript with more liberal arts courses, and spoke with him at length about admissions procedures. "I felt encouraged after that phone call," Capello recalls. "Harvard really took the time to explain what they looked at, and they did it on a personal level...
...this end, we support the request of Thomson Professor of Government Jorge I. Dominguez that the Committee on Ethnic Studies (CES) be upgraded to a standing committee. Dominguez, who is chair of CES, believes this change would broaden the committee's mandate to promote ethnic studies. He also believes that ethnic studies should not be a separate department. His reasons for this include administrative problems, but more fundamentally, as he and Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles write in the Handbook on Race Relations and the Common Pursuit: "The creation of narrowly defined administrative or curricular entities...