Word: models
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...result was that the College tended to accept high academic achievers whose test scores were a good predictor of their success at the university level. Other colleges followed suit and, by the mid-1960s, most selective academic institutions used the Conant model for their admissions...
...early '70s, the school re-defined its educational mission. In contrast to Conant's model, which had promoted a cognitive elite, the new system promoted and privileged diversity. The goal of the College was to admit a diverse class--one in which students would educate each other. Taking account of a student's race and gender made sense...
...Supreme Court, in its famed Bakke v. California decision, cited Harvard's system as a model for private institutions to follow. Since the '70s, the number of minority admits has steadily risen. Tests have become secondary, in part because educational experts concluded that they were far less objective than once thought; they are often biased in favor of the wealthy...
...University announces a complete restructuring of the Harvard University Police Department as part of a plan to implement a model of community policing. The department fires seven lieutenants, hires several new administrators and adds more than a dozen new officers--several on bicycles--to the force...
Until the incident, Allen had been cited as a model SSI guard--students said they found him friendly and accessible. They said they respected his hard work--he was studying to pass his high school equivalency exam...