Archive for June, 2013
June 28, 2013
Fisher v. University of Texas – A student commentary on affirmative action
By Andrew M. Harrison, Stella P. Hartono, Carl T. Gustafson The Supreme Court case of Fisher v. University of Texas concerns the question of whether the race-based, affirmative action undergraduate admission policies of the University are constitutional. This question was raised by a former undergraduate applicant in the specific context of existing Supreme Court rulings […]
June 14, 2013
Sexism in Science: does it still exist?
This week in Washington Post, Phyllis Richman published her reply to a letter from Harvard regarding her graduate school application. In the letter, she was asked to describe how she would balance a professional life in city planning with her responsibilities to her husband and her future family. Her response to this question will […]