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...Liberal education has lost much of its meaning at Harvard, Rosovsky says, as General Education courses often merge with departmental offerings. Rosovsky is fond of asking audiences, "Should tap-dancing be given credit?" and answering that "we have lost the capacity to answer such questions because we have no criteria to do so." Within two years the new Redbook committee, he says, should try to reach a new consensus about what undergraduate education should be. Like its predecessor, the new committee's findings could have national significance...
...DeFunis v. Odegaard case, which involved the constitutionality of a separate admissions process for minority students, Harvard emphasized the educational enrichment that can be achieved only through a diverse student body. The brief stated that a heterogeneous student body should become an educational goal in and of itself. The criteria for diversity mentioned were standard: academic interests, cultural orientation, geography, and personal philosophies. But even on the basis of these qualities, which by now are almost universally accepted, Harvard has slackened, and more and more Harvard undergraduates are likely to come from a similar and upper-middle class socio-economic...
Even these criteria seem crazy in their effectiveness for achieving diversity among the student body. All other factors aside, how many undergraduates have passed their early adulthood? How many have done anything other than go to school for most of their lives? If the Redbook committee wants to break any new ground in enriching education through the composition of the student body, it should lend its weight to an extended concept of diversity, admitting people of all ages and of all walks of life to study at Harvard...
...distinctions between the two groups are based on the federal criteria for employees who are either exempt or non-exempt from payment for over-time work. Officers of the University will not receive money for overtime, but the members of the supporting staff will...
...standards for admission are rigorous. This year, from a pool of about 3100 applicants, NE will accept from 300 to 350 students to fill the 125 spots in its incoming class. The admissions committee, composed of three students, three faculty members and the director of admissions, uses the traditional criteria of grade-point average and LSAT scores, with one exception: any person without an acceptable academic background is considered if there are what one member of the admissions committee terms "mitigating factors--anything you find in their record that is interesting." Student and faculty differ occasionally over individual applications...