Word: overtness
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...From a Goldman Sachs recruiting cover letter: Fifteen Minutes exemplifies all the qualities I hope to bring to your institution—dedication, wit, a love of the craft and, above all, a subtle mix of both overt arrogance and unabashed obsequiousness...
Barbara Gross, the Radcliffe science dean, responded by saying that while overt discrimination is not occurring, “our implicit biases” have lead to the dearth of offers to women...
Barbara Gross, the Radcliffe science dean, responded by saying that while overt discrimination is not occurring, “our implicit biases” have lead to the dearth of offers to women...
Subjection to the overt personal political views of professors in a classroom setting is not education. No discipline can claim that a logical and essential conclusion of its objective study must be a political position. A professor’s diatribes against President Bush or veiled endorsements of Democratic policies are not lessons of a positive science; they are personal opinion. If presented at all, they should aired separately from what is viewed as the objective lesson and accompanied by a contrasting point of view...
Bias is a problem at Harvard and throughout academia, but not one without remedy. Overt bias must be kept to a minimum, but if universities are to allow a healthy amount of political bias in their classes, they must embrace and seek intellectual and political diversity much more rigorously than it has in the past. For if diversity is truly held to be a valuable goal in the makeup of a faculty, schools must consider the hiring of more conservative professors an important part of that commitment. Only in this context can bias cease to be the problem and become...