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According to the Academic Affairs Committee (AAC) of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, ethnic studies comprises Afro-American Studies, American Latino Studies, Asian American Studies, Native American Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies. The purpose of these disciplines is not only "to broaden the extant canon of knowledge to include experiences and contributions of groups historically excluded from such consideration," but more significantly, to create "an approach striving towards multiple positioning of race/class/gender/sexuality" and "[to reinterpret] existing paradigms through which the meaning of the human experience is apprehended." We agree with the first of these two tenets. American...
...Bill meant that returning veterans across the country would be able to afford a college education. Prior to the war, Conant, originally from middle-class Dorchester, had created new "National Scholarships" for students from the southern and western states to broaden Harvard's student body. But it took the war and the G.I. Bill to have a significant impact on the homogeneous student population...
...show has done that, eliciting a few newsmaking quotes in its first weeks from such guests as Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour. Executive producer Marty Ryan, who once ran NBC's Today Show, says the program will move outside the Beltway on occasion, in an effort to broaden its appeal. "What we want to do is bring some new people into the tent on Sunday mornings," he says. Fox has also beefed up its political coverage, hiring Emily Rooney, former executive producer of ABC's World News Tonight, to run a New York-based political unit with 50 staff...
Sullivan, who attended Oxford and Harvard, had sought to broaden the magazine's audience, bringing in younger writers and running more stories on social and cultural trends as well as politics. He gave a forum to such provocative voices as Camille Paglia, author of a recent psychological hatchet job on Hillary Clinton titled Ice Queen, Drag Queen. Circulation crept up, from 94,000 to 100,000; more significant, advertising revenues increased...
...that they have had, are similar to those of other students who attend Harvard. There is a certain homogeneity of experience among many students here--Princeton Review prep classes, professional parents and academic summer camps. To relax standards for minority students who have had these opportunities does not truly broaden diversity...