Word: legacyism
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But despite her brief tenure, O’Brien leaves behind a sizeable legacy.
“He has mentored an enormous number of scholars in the field,” said Harrington, adding that as much as anything else, Mendelsohn’s ability to inspire generations of students will serve as his legacy long after he steps out of the classroom for...
It’s particularly unfortunate because one of the University’s most controversial (and least defensible) policies is aimed at currying favor (and funds) from alumni. That policy, legacy preference, gives a tip in the admissions process to applicants whose parents attended Harvard. To paraphrase John Stuart...
Harvard’s rhetoric regarding legacy is illogical (though, to its credit, grammatical). On the one hand, University officials argue that “legacy admissions are integral to the kind of community that any private educational institution is,” as then-President Lawrence H. Summers phrased...
Yet, on the other hand, the University argues that legacy preference confers only a slight advantage on alumni children. Harvard’s admissions director, Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73, describes legacy preference as “a feather on the scale if all...