Word: ethnical
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...release of the ASGF was not arbitrarily chosen. There have been numerous statistics, Faculty-generated reports, and a plethora of recent Crimson articles proving that Harvard has failed to recruit adequate numbers of women and minority professors. These same media have suggested various means by which the gender and ethnic balance of the faculty could be improved. Thus, the ASGF money could be attained by you without too much new research or promising on the part of Harvard. The College needs only to follow through with its previous promises...
Instead, Glazer cautiously lent his support to the recent movement toward incorporating the histories and cultures of other ethnic groups into elementary and high school curricula...
...past books, such as his 1963 Beyond the Melting Pot, written with Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan '66 (D-NY) and his 1975 Affirmative Discrimination, Glazer argued tirelessly for a strong presentation of "distinctly American culture" in school and for the assimilation of different ethnic groups into American society...
...points to a failure of the American educational system "to incorporate blacks fully, or at least to the same degree as other ethnic groups...
When asked to comment on the creation of a department of ethnic studies at Harvard, Glazer carefully distinguished between the African-American studies department, which "has justified itself and is now shaping the 'American' conception of past and future," and other ethnic groups around whom he saw "no virtue in making departments...