Word: glazer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Professor of Education and Social Structure Nathan Glazer commented this fall that "The Civil Rights act I assure you was never passed for Asians either." Such a simplification again strips Asian-Americans of their distinctive cultural identities and denies recognition of the overt and subtle barriers they face today...
...Glazer, author of the 1975 work Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy, said that because Asian-Americans have already gained significant representation in many prestigious professions, it is unnecessary to include them in programs designed to target minorities. In support of his position, Glazer said that while Blacks constitute about 12 percent of the U.S. population, they make up only 1.8 percent of American medical school faculties; Asian-Americans, at about 2 percent the population, make up 7.5 percent...
...Glazer, dismissed the low representation of Asian-Americans in the humanities...
...there won't be as many Asians teaching French literature," said Glazer. "The world won't go down. Everybody can't be everywhere...
While saying that Harvard admissions policies have amounted to discrimination against Asian-Americans, Glazer also said the pursuit of "balanced" admissions was a worthy pursuit. Harvard gives preference to athletes and children of alumni in its admissions, factors which it concedes lowered Asian-American admission rates to 80 percent that of white applicants during the 1980s...