Word: lany
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...other members of the Faculty, specifically naming former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, Professor of History and of Afro-American Studies Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Tishman and Diker Professor of Sociology and of Afro-American Studies Lawrence D. Bobo and Boskey Professor of Law Lani Guinier ’71, among others, as members of “the younger age-cohort of progressive Black intellectuals at Harvard whom I thought would join” the scrutiny of Gates’ work...
...Class of 2002 honored the teaching ability of Boskey Professor of Law Lani Guinier ’71 with the annual Albert M. Sacks-Paul A. Freund Award...
...example, Boskey Professor of Law Lani Guinier ’71 has suggested that a university could reaffirm its commitment to diversity by requiring that all applicants write a personal statement describing how they would contribute to the diversity of the university. Evaluation of the essay would focus on the student’s commitment to contribute to the university’s diversity, not on a qualitative assessment of the substance of a student’s contribution. This reform would reemphasize that diversity is integral to the democratic mission of the university. It would also respect the unique...
Steve Altschuler and Lani Wu, a husband-and-wife-team, are the CGR’s two non-biologists. The mathematicians, who had developed algorithms at Microsoft and worked in bioinformactics companies before coming to the Center, hope to apply mathematical models and software to biological problems...
...think that they own the place. That’s a huge problem, and I think the assumption that somehow West’s scholarship may not be up to the level it is, is an assumption, especially when we haven’t even read it. Think of Lani Gunier. When she was supposed to be the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Bill Clinton and those that sunk her nomination in Congress never read her stuff. There is an assumption, perhaps, that black excellence is exceptional or somehow out of place or outside the norm. There is that...