Word: goals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there are few apparent congressional qualms about the further expansion of minority set-asides. A Defense authorization act, which took effect this month, calls upon the Pentagon to strive toward awarding 5% of all contracts, as much as $7 billion a year, to minority-owned small businesses. A laudable goal but also, alas, another tempting target for corruption...
...they have been so willing and eager for four years, I have been led to conclude that at least some of the responsibility for the intermittent confusion and resentment harbored by all students over the "race issue" during the past few years rests with the goal of achieving diversity in higher education itself...
...THIS GOAL is entirely unattainable and to some degree immoral. The purpose of a liberal education in an institution which preaches diversity should be as much to enlighten white upper-middle class and upper-class students as it is to integrate or, as the case may be, uplift members of minority groups. These two goals, though, are incompatible. The former places the minority student in the position of being an intellectual diversion for others. Like the Foreign Cultures requirement in the Core, the minority student is programmed into the educational equation as just another variable to broaden the horizons...
Thompson explains that the goal of the program is to transcend the limits of individual disciplines like law and medicine in producing ethically complete teachers. "Ethics is a discipline that requires some study and competence. There is a confusion sometimes between acting ethically or being an ethical person, which may not require any ethical training at all, and ethics as a discipline or subject to be taught, which does require some specialized knowledge," Thompson says...
...adopted in the past, problems--which the University-wide ethics program aims to rectify--have arisen with insuring that students receive sufficient ethical training. Trying to integrate ethics into the curriculum as a whole, the plan favored by deans and faculty at the B-School, is a worthy goal, but may fail in the execution, say experts on ethics. ethics into the curriculum as a whole, the plan favored by deans and faculty at the B-School, is a worthy goal, but may fail in the execution, say experts on ethics...