Word: curran
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Some observers say that the government chose a selective northeastern college and a top California public school for its first reviews in response to those reports. Education Department spokesperson Gary L. Curran has said only that the reviews were prompted by media reports, internal government notations and other informal sources...
...Harvard, federal investigators have already met several times with University officials to receive general admissions information and to negotiate the release of other data, according to Admissions Officer Susie S. Chao '85. And Curran, who is the special assistant to the deputy secretary of education, adds that his department plans to begin the final phase of the investigation with an on-site inspection by September...
...Curran said in November that admissions reviews normally take six months to a year, but he has declined comment on the protracted length of the Harvard investigation...
...Curran has said that the investigations--being conducted by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights--are "compliance reviews" to determine whether Harvard and UCLA are adhering to Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. That legislation prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin, and allows the federal government to withdraw some or all funding from institutions found in violation...