Word: scholarshipped
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...hard to find anyone last week in the education world who did not express dismay at a Washington bureaucrat's decision to bar federal aid to colleges and universities that offer scholarships restricted to minority students. The amount of money at risk is likely to be small, since need-based aid and minority scholarships established by private organizations like the United Negro College Fund remain legal. Colleges may also continue to take race into account in awarding money so long as it is not the only factor involved -- and financial need rather than race is often the dominant consideration...
...department's rationale for the ban is Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which forbids racial or ethnic discrimination by organizations receiving federal funds. "You can't have a whites-only scholarship," says Chester Finn Jr., a Reagan-era education official. "Why should there be scholarships exclusively for minorities...
That is why the New York Times approached her with the project to "design a readable book on the history of Iraq," something which Mylroie does not think exists among current scholarship. The book also "explains about the region, and about Saddam and his motives for taking Kuwait...
...most appealing argument the department could make for the relative strength of its British scholarship is that it is impossible to understand the American literary tradition without first understanding its British precursor. This assertion is legitimate, but it does not excuse the weakness of the American curriculum here. An undergraduate English concentrator rarely has the opportunity to use British literature as a window on American literaure, because he or she rarely has the opportunity to study American literature...
...last meeting, some professors said they thought an international relations certificate would have little meaning, while others greeted the Rhodes-like scholarship proposal with skepticism. Others said they were reluctant to have Harvard create a scholarship modeled after what they said was the "Anglo-centric vision" of the Rhodes model...