Word: berkeley
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...Berkeley may be powerless to increase diversity in its student body, but the diversity of the faculty is a goal well within their reach, as faculty committees are largely responsible for hiring new professors. Noguera says he finds these committees' inaction, and the fact that they have failed to increase the numbers of women and minorities in their ranks, reprehensible...
...Berkeley campus, which responded to the passing of Prop. 209 in 1996 with thousand-strong demonstrations in the university's Sproul Plaza, reacted with consternation to Noguera's departure...
...spite of the longtime association between Harvard and WASP-y elitism, Noguera says he believes that Harvard has succeeded in many ways that Berkeley has failed...
From 1990-94 Noguera served on the City of Berkeley School Board. He says he intends to work with public schools Boston area--but not as an elected official...
...also been praised for his engaging classroom style and was a recipient of the 1997 UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award...