Word: socio
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...diversity" that Neil L. Rudenstine defends in his beautifully constructed and eloquent President's Report is an elusive concept. It simultaneously balances race, ethnicity, gender, socio-economics, geography, religion, sexual orientation, politics, disabilities, academic interests and family situation in an endless supermarket list of characteristics which defines...
...pursuit of racial diversity comes at the expense of socio-economic and geographic diversity, and reduces student interaction into formulas based on the color of our skin rather than the richness of our backgrounds. In his report, Rudenstine mentions these factors only in passing. He writes, "The most constructed and well-conceived admissions programs are those that view affirmative action in relation to the educational benefits of diversity. They may take various characteristics such as race, ethnicity, or gender into account as potential 'plus' factors (among many others) when evaluating candidates, but they do not assign such characteristics an overriding...
Though Harvard may seem racially homogenous, it is more diverse racially than it is socio-economically. Excluding international students, Harvard is presently 18.8 percent Asian American, 7.8 percent black and 5.6 percent Latino. But only 15 percent of students come from families which make less than $65,000 a year, an income at the 92.3 national percentile. Essentially, 85 percent of Harvard students come from the richest 7.7 percent of America--hardly a cross-section of our society...
...University's decision is a superficial, check-list notion of diversity. As opposed to looking at the individual person and his or her personal qualities and interests, the University has reverted to a group-identity form of diversity where two people from the same area and the same socio-economic milieu, interested in similar academic and extra-curricular activities, of different races are more "diverse" than two people from different parts of the country, with radically different family backgrounds and interests, of the same ethnicity. This is not to say that race does not play a central role...
...speech, Stout said that socio-economic divisions can interfere with efforts to effect social action...