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...Faculty diversity: Of the 426 senior Faculty in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 22 are of Asian descent. Since the diversification of Faculty will broaden the experiences brought to the Harvard classroom and enhance undergraduate education, we urge the council to take an active role in pursuing faculty diversity in Harvard's hiring practices...
...added that choosing three new members from Adams and one from Leverett did not broaden the committee's outreach...
...engagement" with China. Wei was such a leading light of the dissident movement--and thus considered so dangerous by the Chinese government--that his supporters sometimes feared he would never go free. A former electrician in Beijing, Wei first gained notoriety with a 1978 essay advocating that Deng Xiaoping broaden his campaign to carry out "Four Modernizations"--of industry, agriculture, science and the military--to include democracy as a "fifth modernization." The next year, after writing a wall poster that accused Deng of being a dictator, Wei was arrested...
...think the impression most students have of Lamelle's tenure in office is about diversity on campus.... We want to broaden the appeal of the U.C.," Carter said. "It looked like there was a lot of talk and no action." A number of candidates also expressed frustration with what they see as the quashing of council reform under Rawlins' tenure and intimated that when she retires, the council will debate significant changes...
...house, they often come to deal exclusively with members of that house. Although house unity and pride are great attributes of the house system, this situation discourages students from expanding their social horizons. At a school with such a dynamic and diverse student body, students should be encouraged to broaden their associations rather than to narrow them. The University, in instituting the randomization of house selections, responded to concerns that students were limiting themselves to particular groups and circles. However the failure to give upperclass students universal access still encourages students to limit their associations to a small group. Universal...