Word: orfield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...educational process that affected everyone pretty deeply," said Orfield, who is co-director of the Civil Rights Project, the Harvard institute that sponsored the survey...
...survey's purposes, Orfield and Whitla focused on racial and ethnic diversity...
...Orfield contends that affirmative action in admissions is necessary in order to make up for past discrimination and to ensure an educated population...
...still have a very unequal playing field out there, and in some ways it's becoming more unequal," Orfield said...