Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Higher education, they say, is the gateway to future opportunity in employment, and thus the federal government must increase expenditures on all forms of student aid to ensure equal access for all. "Education is a metaphor for a lot of the challenges facing the country," Shattuck says...
Undergraduates went beyond the conventional concerns in their defense of equal treatment and nonprejudicial attitudes. This spring students organized a Defeat Homophobia group and sponsored discussions on discrimination and harrassment during Gay Lesbian Awareness Days. Students also created an AIDs education outreach service...
...those actions pale before Horner's negotiation of the "non-merger merger" agreement in 1977 that united the housing and admissions policy of Harvard and Radcliffe. Horner herself believes that this agreement is her first and foremost achievement. "Our success in having an equal access admissions policy has really changed the nature and quality of education here," she said, adding those reforms have made "coeducation really viable...
Administrators from President Bok to FAS's Equal Employment Opportunity Officer have recognized Harvard's serious shortage of minority professors, but they contend that the pool of available job applicants is the primary reason for the problem...
...although this year's finish, a first-round NCAA loss to Michigan State, did not equal the previous two Final Four appearances of the last two Crimson teams, this duo can look back at its accomplishments and realize that not many graduating seniors on other teams in the nation could boast of such a resume...