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Policies like Harvard’s and Michigan’s are not necessarily the best way to achieve the educational benefits of diversity, said Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. ’53, who encountered criticism two years ago when he linked grade inflation to the influx of black students in the 1960s...
Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 moderated the event, which was sponsored by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Harvard’s Program on Constitutional Government...
...Mansfield introduced Cohen and Oelstrom with a question...
...motion passed unanimously, with the comment coming from Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, who subtly suggested that grade inflation was at the root of the need to revise the standards...
...Mansfield says he believes discussion and debate in the public sphere can help professors bring innovative approaches to their scholarly arguments. “You can, in preparing a political argument, learn things you wouldn’t learn if you were only trying to answer other professors,” he says, “so it forces you to sharpen your thinking and come to the point in a way that scholarly thinking cannot...