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WASHINGTON--Just a year after former Harvard president Derek C. Bok co-wrote a book championing the use of race in the university admissions process, two Harvard professors have released a survey which they say shows students believe diversity has had a positive impact on their education...
Orfield and Whitla hired the Gallup Organization to survey 1,820 students from the Harvard and University of Michigan law schools. Of those surveyed, about 90 percent of the students felt that diversity had a positive impact on their education...
...educational process that affected everyone pretty deeply," said Orfield, who is co-director of the Civil Rights Project, the Harvard institute that sponsored the survey...
...critics of the survey say that the questions of the impact of diversity on the students are vague...
...survey's purposes, Orfield and Whitla focused on racial and ethnic diversity...