Word: peering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other business, the council yesterday endorsed a follow-up study to the 1991 Grosz report on women in the sciences at Harvard. The study concluded that two years later issues of peer harassment and differential treatment still trouble some women graduate students...
...follow-up, which was based on interviews of female graduate students, found that "peer harassment was the single greatest difficulty facing women graduate students," along with a dearth of female faculty and role models...
...Examples of peer harassment included display of inappropriate posters of women, perceptions of inferiority or advantage of women due to affirmative action, crude remarks and exclusion from group activities," the study reported...
...campus conservative will happily extemporize on the evils of the mandatory Contact peer outreaches, where sexual orientation is discussed with first-years. "Is a group's right to free speech and the protection of the University dependent on its status as a 'politically correct' organization?" they query...
Summarizing the opinions quoted in the article, the staff of The Independent write that peer, professorial, and family expectations can "lead to Asian students surpassing their potential and black students falling short of it." But the problem isn't that expectations placed on Asian students are too high, but that everyone--including the administrators and professors interviewed in the article--expects and demands too little from Black students. There is a fine line betwen explaining away Black "underachievement" and accepting...