Word: impactful
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WASHINGTON--Just a year after former Harvard president Derek C. Bok co-wrote a book championing the use of race in the university admissions process, two Harvard professors have released a survey which they say shows students believe diversity has had a positive impact on their education...
Orfield and Whitla hired the Gallup Organization to survey 1,820 students from the Harvard and University of Michigan law schools. Of those surveyed, about 90 percent of the students felt that diversity had a positive impact on their education...
...critics of the survey say that the questions of the impact of diversity on the students are vague...
Still, City Councillor Sheila T. Russell said that though students have run in the past, they do not have the same impact on the campaign as do incumbents or other more politically active candidates...
...Cantabrigians] are familiar with the issues and the environment. I don't think that someone who is living in Cambridge temporarily should try to make a huge impact on the city," Russell said...