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According to the school's daily newspaper, Lee Bass, a 1979 alumnus, was prepared to grant $20 million to Yale for programs on Western civilization, but the gift was contingent on one thing--that he have a say in selecting faculty members...
Coming from a working-class background in Brooklyn, N.Y., Noguera, 40, says he might not have gotten into Brown University without the benefit of admissions policies which took into consideration his potential contribution to the school's diversity--not just his grades...
Noguera stayed at Brown to receive his master's degree in sociology, in addition to a teaching credential, before heading to the West Coast to work on his PhD. After earning a doctorate in sociology from Berkeley in 1989, Noguera initially chose to teach there because of the school's relatively high level of diversity, he told the San Francisco Chronicle in November...
...Noguera does not fully blame the Berkeley administration for the decline in student diversity, realizing that the school's hands are tied by Proposition 209, the 1996 California initiative ending affirmative action...
Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) dean Jerome T. Murphy agreed with Noguera's assertion...