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Shin also makes his way down to Quincy, where he is a counselor for the Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO). He is also active in the King's Fellowship, a campus Christian group...
Harvard administrators try to justify the lack of Asian-American faculty with the generalization that the "pool of qualified minority scholars is too small." At a meeting last spring, Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence told the Minority Student Alliance (MSA) that academic fellowships for minority students represented a quick method of removing at least some economic barriers that led to homogeneous faculties. Spence emphasized that the Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship in particular would be a long-term aid in increasing the number of minority faculty members...
...Mellon Fellowship, however, does not apply to Asian-Americans, confirming a pattern of exclusion of Asian-Americans from programs intended to help minorities. Since Asian-Americans are a minority of the minority of non-whites, the majority thought the majority of minorities would be content with the fellowships...
Mellon Foundation spokeperson Henry Drewry, who is responsible for administration of the fellowship, says in defense of the program's exclusionary policy, "We address the most acute aspects of the problem...
...applied for a fellowship during my senior year, and Clive was one of my dozen interviewers. I received the fellowship, the interviewing committee dissolved, and Harvard more or less finished with me. Clive, however...