Word: role
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Council leaders said the council should stick to the role it could best fill--social leadership. But instead of spearheading a drive to improve quality of life, the council showed its maddening inability to do anything that the student body wanted...
Concerns for democracy go beyond an opened and improved social life. The administration must recognize that the diverse student body it admits has needs that have not been addressed by the traditional hierarchy. In a tenured faculty of 7 percent women and 6 percent minorities, role models for a majority of the student body are few and far between...
...whether or not focusing efforts at the graduate school level is too little, too late, as many minority professors and students here believe, all sides agree that the University must take an active role in recruiting qualified minority candidates for its Ph.D. programs...
...meet what is a fast-approaching deadline, GSAS has invested both time and money--including a $100,000 yearly budget solely for minority recruitment--in increasingly sophisticated recruitment efforts. But the program's success has been limited by the lack of minority role models in academia, the attraction of higher-paying professions such as law, medicine and business, and the relative lack of a minority presence at Harvard...
...theory behind such a plan is that until the University hires minority professors, minority students will lack the role models that could convince them to make a career in academia...