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...husband and wife left Harvard’s African and African-American Studies Department in 2005 for Stanford, where they both held tenure-level positions. At Harvard, Bobo had been a full professor, while Morgan held an untenured associate professorship...
...down the road whether other institutions might choose [to change their policies].” Harvard ended its early admission program on September 12, 2006. Princeton and the University of Virginia followed suit within the next few weeks. Yet the move was rejected by both Yale and Stanford, and was criticized in The New York Times by Stanford Provost John Etchemendy. Fitzsimmons has repeatedly said that one of the major goals of the move is to attract students from lower income brackets, as early admissions programs tend to “advantage the advantaged” who have access...
...1950s, Stanford psychologist Leon Festinger famously used the term cognitive dissonance to describe the discomfort we feel when our behaviors don't align with our beliefs. Festinger found that people will go to great lengths to reduce dissonance. In one well-known experiment, those who had been asked to falsely claim that a boring task--placing spools on a tray, for instance--was fun were later found to have persuaded themselves that the task really was fun. They had crossed over from hypocrisy to something more pathetic: self-deception. In this light, getting married, having kids and advancing conservatism looks...
...brightest move away and more recently experienced a mass exodus. For his New Orleans director, Schnur was able to lure Tyra Newell, who was the budget director for Chicago public schools. She was born and raised in New Orleans, but after she went to Howard University and then Stanford Graduate School of Business, her father was worried that she would never come back. The hurricane brought her home. She and Schnur hope to bring at least 40 new school principals to New Orleans over the next three years, and the state board of education bestowed on the group in August...
...whether explicitly as gang markings or simply as a sign of neighborhoods in disrepair. But in 1984 then mayor W. Wilson Goode made a fateful decision: instead of declaring war on the spray-painting vandals, he would offer them amnesty. Goode gave Jane Golden--a petite, white, high-energy, Stanford-educated muralist--a six-week trial period to persuade the black and Latino youths who made up the Bronx Bombers, the High Class Lunatics and other graffiti gangs to channel their creative energy into muralmaking...