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Title: Diversity and Excellence in American Higher Education

Citation Type: Book, Section

Publication Year: 2010

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230107885_8

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Abstract: Shortly after the University of Virginia Press published Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education, Bill Bowen, Martin Kurzweil, and I participated in a panel discussion at the Brookings Institution. One of our colleagues on the panel, Amy Gutmann, President of the University of Pennsylvania, and a distinguished political philosopher who has written widely about education, democracy, and human rights, prefaced her remarks by referring to a New Yorker cartoon portraying a little boy tugging at Thomas Jefferson’s coattails, looking up at Mr. Jefferson and saying: “If you hold these truths to be self-evident, then why do you keep harping on them so much?”

Url: http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9780230107885_8

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Authors: Tobin, Eugene M.

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Pages: 97-108

Volume Title: The Future of Diversity

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US

Publisher Location: New York

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Other

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