Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While panelist Professor Cornel R. West '74 agreed that Harvard still has much progress to make in promoting integration and diversity on campus, he said in the 28 years that have elapsed since his undergraduate days at Harvard, the University has made huge strides in combatting racism and segregation...
West asked the University to continue its progress toward positive race relations by hiring a more diverse faculty...
...utopian future he called an "exciting time for state governments," Bayh described a federal government that sets standards, provides resources and follows the progress of programs...
...fuzzy picture of prisoners. Some of them are manipulative and test the boundaries of the tutor-tutee relationship every week. Some tell stories just to appease the ears of tutors. After months without contact with women, some tutees make inappropriate comments to female tutors. Some lack the motivation to progress through lessons or continually forget to complete assignments. Yet the structure of the Harvard tutoring program grants individual tutors autonomy over their curriculum and allows them to ask for a new tutee, if the situation becomes uncomfortable or ineffective. The two co-directors closely monitor all tutor-tutee relationships, ensuring...
According to Goldhagen, most people think the Holocaust was a central event not because Jews suffered, but because the Holocaust was perpetrated by a Western European country deemed to be at the pinnacle of civilization. This contrast challenges our notion of progress, Goldhagen said...