Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more vulnerable to policy changes than any other group. As new members of the Harvard student community, blacks do not have an alumni or faculty power base to deal with admissions policy. WASPs and Jews have either one or both of these two powerful supports in their corner. As ethnic groups jockey for more slots in the College, places that belong to black students are least secure...
Harvard and at least 25 other institutions prepared opinions for the court because educators, college administrators and lawyers believe that the outcome of this case could have a significant impact on non-white minority, sexual, ethnic and socio-economic group admissions procedures and affirmative action programs for hiring...
...doubtful, of course, that Crooks would see the issue in terms of that question; the program, he says, was set up largely by ethnic minorities and for ethnic minorities. But that argument doesn't really hold water. If you reversed the circumstances and asked whether a program set up by whites is justified in excluding blacks, the answer would clearly be negative. The people studying in a program should not necessarily be the same people that raised the money for the program. The question is, instead, whether poor blacks are, because of their race, intrinsically more disadvantaged than poor whites...
...high court could be as important to minority access to higher education as the Brown v. Board of Education desegration ruling of 1954 was for public school education. And many observers say that the ruling could affect not only non-white minority admissions procedures, but those for sexual, ethnic and socio-economic groups as well. Affirmative action plans involving hiring practices could also be altered by the Court ruling...
Harvard contends that the expansion of recent years in the meaning of diversity among students to include students from disadvantaged economic, racial and ethnic groups has meant that race must be a factor in some admissions decisions...