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...Asian-Americans excluded from minority fellowships? As a spokesperson for the Ford Foundation told me, "Orientals are overrepresented in the sciences." Displaying similar grouping, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Mark S. Ptashne remarked to his Biochemistry 10b class, "maybe I should say [the lecture material] in Chinese"--presumably because of the high number of Asian-Americans in the class. These sorts of blanket generalizations, while not motivated by real racial prejudice, represent a measure of ignorance...
FELLOWSHIPS such as the Mellon and Ford are not affirmative action programs; rather, they merely act as encouragement to minority students. And this is precisely the point that is misinterpreted by opponents of affirmative action. If the ultimate goals of fellowships such as the Ford and Mellon are to normalize faculty salaries and representation, then the exclusion of Asian-Americans is indefensible...
...Harvard University will continue to assert that there are not enough qualified Asian-American humanities scholars suitable for tenure. And foundations such as the Mellon and Ford will continue to deny minority fellowships to Asian-Americans because "Orientals are overrepresented in the sciences." It leaves Asian-Americans paralyzed by a Catch...
When government funding was cut off, the Ed School and the AIP arranged for an annual $18,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. The grant was for a two-year period, ending in June...
...Europe now ranks fifth in its share of the highly competitive European market, behind Volkswagen (15.1%), Fiat (14.4%), PeugeotCitroen (12.7%) and Ford (11.6%). But at its current rate, GM Europe may soon move up a notch or two. The company, which makes cars in West Germany, England, Spain and Belgium, is considered the most nimble pan-European competitor at the moment. "If I were the rest of the Europeans, I'd be scared to death of GM," says James Harbour, an automotive consultant in Troy, Mich...