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...None of us in Texas thought it would be the only thing done to achieve diversity,” White said, citing other Texas initiatives which aim to complement the percent plan, including a state scholarship program and increased minority recruiting efforts...
...there were a national program with the broader goal of training qualified college graduates to teach in districts that need them, TFA’s mission of placing only the very best applicants in the most disadvantaged areas would be a superb complement to it. But as it is, TFA is pretty much the only way for seniors who do not plan to teach as a career, and who have no formal teaching credentials, to make an immediate impact in the classroom. There is a massive teacher shortage, and TFA cannot ignore the fact that almost every applicant it turns...
...policy on academic centers approved this December by the Deans rightfully requires that new centers extend beyond the interest of one or two professors and not simply duplicate the work of preexisting programs. Presently, over 100 centers exist at Harvard, and while some aptly complement its academic mission, others spring from the peculiarities of one eccentric donor. It is unclear what new opportunities Fonda’s center would have contributed to the GSE. On the contrary, mathematical biology is an interdisciplinary field which can yield tremendous research opportunities to professors in several departments under Nowak’s leadership...
During its existence, ORRMA addressed the non-celebratory side of race relations and minority affairs, as a complement to Cultural Rhythms, high profile lectures and other multicultural celebrations of the Harvard Foundation. Hernandez-Gravelle decided to “shape the work of the office as one of deep engagement, developing understanding of issues about systematic conflicts that created barriers to diversity.” It is this vision that Harvard realized through its financial and ideological commitment to ORRMA...
...addition, bonfires seem to be critical to successful parties. Almost every party I attended had an outdoor bonfire to complement the indoor revelry and, thus, I cannot help but conclude that the bonfire must possess some yet-unstudied party-making property. Something about large fires seemed to enchant the FSU students and make them want to drink more such that several among them felt compelled to jump over or through (as it were) the pyre’s leaping flames. What...