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...Harvard is the richest university, [so] it’s the one in the best position to take on this issue of income diversity,” says Kahlenberg, who commissioned Heller’s report. “It has a very strong record in taking a leadership role on racial diversity, and it’s completely left income diversity off the table...
...that reason Kahlenberg calls Harvard’s economic diversity record “miserable...
This charge from Kahlenberg is particularly biting considering who is at the head of Harvard’s admissions table. Before he was an admissions officer, before he became a Harvard dean, Fitzsimmons was a working-class kid in Braintree. When he told some of the teachers at his high school that he was interested in going to Harvard, Fitzsimmons says they shot back at him, shocked...
...There are certain cultural issues going on here,” says Kahlenberg. “Going back to the ’60s, which is when [race-based] affirmative action really got going, the white low-income and working-class families ceased to be sympathetic in the eyes of many in the academic community. There was this idea, well, they’re a bunch of Archie Bunkers. And I think that’s a real tragedy...
...Kahlenberg in particular mentions former University President Derek Bok, who along with Princeton President William G. Bowen authored a seminal book on race in admissions, The Shape of the River. Bok, says Kahlenberg, is typical of Harvard’s “We’d love to have more poor kids but they just aren’t academically prepared” stance...