Word: curriculums
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Kennedy School has received a $130,000 grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to finance 16 fellowships and curriculum development in the program for senior executives in state and local government...
...Harvard should develop a high school curriculum that aids in promoting racial understanding...
...Core Curriculum should include a set of courses on race relations and ethnic groups...
Another large divergence in opinion appears in students' attitudes toward Harvard's commitment to diversity in admissions, curriculum and hiring policies. "White students, on the whole, appear reasonably satisfied with the existing state of affairs," the report found, but minority students "show a pronounced desire" to increase the number of minority Faculty and minority-related courses. Ninety-four per cent of Black students, for example, thought that "increased minority representation on the Faculty should be a highpriority goal for the University," but only 4 per cent thought it was such a goal. By less dramatic but equally significant measures, Black...
...line with its findings, the committee recommended that the University reaffirm its commitment to affirmative action and that the Core Curriculum include courses specially dealing with race relations. "The lack of women and minorities on the Faculty reinforces student perceptions of prejudice," Cepeda said, adding, "There simply aren't enough role models for minorities at Harvard." Epps said only one course here deals with the Hispanic and Asian American experience, adding, "The University has responded to a lot of problems abroad, but there is this one area that is missing." Despite some student committee members' wishes that undergraduates be required...