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Though the College did not institute a formal quota system, grade deflation supporters had claimed victory when the number of A-range marks dropped nearly 2 percent...
Another worrying aspect of the recent report is the possibility that the system Harvard will eventually employ will become in effect a quota system. Just as we are against quota systems in universities’ admissions process, we are against one in Harvard’s hiring process. A quota system would be the wrong approach because it could stigmatize minority and women hires. Even worse, it would be completely the wrong way to make decisions on tenure. Again, each individual candidate for tenure must be evaluated on what he or she will contribute to Harvard, and race...
...that system, once one candidate has met a certain quota of votes, he or she is elected, and his or her remaining votes are distributed to the candidates whom those voters selected as second. The process continues until all nine seats have been filled...
...When Kumin reached the end of high school, the admissions committee at her first-choice college, Wellesley, cared little about her personal relationship with Christ. At the time, Wellesley “had a very stringent Jewish quota,” Kumin recalled—and in Wellesley’s eyes, however fond she may have been of Jesus, Maxine Winokur was still a Jew. She was rejected...
...There is no quota or number that we try to fill for each university,” Bendell said...