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Blum said that his office and the Center for Equal Opportunity sent similar letters to more than 30 universities, and 60 percent have changed the admissions policies of such programs. Their efforts led MIT to open one of its summer programs??€”Minority Introduction to Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Science—to non-minorities for the first time...
...advance deep in the NCAA tournament. Many Ivy schools, across all sports, lack the challenging competition during the regular season necessary to perform consistently at the national level during the postseason. And in women’s tennis, there’s plenty of competition between 316 Division I programs??€”a total exceeded by only men’s and women’s basketball and women’s cross-country...
Though they hailed the day as an overall success, some professors and officials at Harvard said the Gratz ruling placed unnecessary restrictions on affirmative action programs??€”though Summers said it would have no effect on Harvard’s non-point-based system...
Harvard’s strategy, Casey explained, was to gain credibility in Washington—and to avoid blame for any crises that might arise among hastily developed national-security programs??€”by complying with the letter of the new laws...
...pointed to the new emphasis on bulk-buying programs??€”a measure recommended by a McKinsey study released last year—as one way the central administration is helping to cut costs across the University. The study found that the University could save up to $100 million a year through its combined purchasing power...