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...only Harvard insiders will defend the school’s staunch academic standards. Brian K. Fitzgerald, staff director of the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance at the U.S. Department of Education, also explains Harvard’s relatively low economic diversity by its top-of-the-pack standards...
...Fitzgerald does offer one piece of advice: “The most appropriate question is what can be done to incorporate [more low-income students] while not lowering admissions standards,” he says. “I think the right answer is outreach, and recruiting...
UCLA stands at the top of selective universities in terms of its socioeconomic diversity. The school’s lack of any early applicant pool may have some effect. According to Brian Fitzgerald, director of the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance at the U.S. Department of Education, early-admissions programs diminish socioeconomic diversity. “The majority of students applying in the early process are full-pays or close to it,” Fitzgerald says. So if early applicants are given a leg up, economic diversity can suffer...
...Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial-services firm that occupied the top floors of a World Trade Center tower, has more real-world experience with computers and terrorism than any other company. It lost more than 700 of its 1,000 New York City employees on Sept. 11. Despite obstacles that were unforeseeable in any emergency contingency plan and that challenged the limits of emotional endurance, survivors managed to reopen with the bond markets 47 hours later...
Herein lies the problem with Harvard’s value-neutral Core: Western society is better than its alternatives. The “dead white men” whom multiculturalists demean—as if syllabi focusing on the likes of Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald marginalize women and minorities—in fact encourage inquiries that invalidate the grotesque marginalization observed in other societies. Shakespeare, for example, challenges students to discover human truths transcending the perspective of any one ethnic group or gender...