Editorials
EDITORIAL | Has Cornell Forgotten ‘Any Person, Any Study?’
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Powerhouse universities have told their communities how a loss of affirmative action has affected enrollment. Cornell should follow suit.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/racial-bias/)
Powerhouse universities have told their communities how a loss of affirmative action has affected enrollment. Cornell should follow suit.
As the first woman of color CEO of AT&T Business, Anne Chow B.S. ’88, M.Eng. ’89, MBA ’90 manages more than 30,000 employees and helps lead a $37 billion business group that serves customers worldwide. But alongside the daily challenges of being a CEO, it also means navigating gender and racial biases.
Bias and exclusion have festered within STEM fields for centuries, perpetuating a system that deprives others of a chance to experience the same levels of success as white males. Prof. Corrie Moreau, ecology and evolutionary biology, wants to change that.
“Be deeply skeptical of your own minds,” Harvard Prof. Mahzarin Banaji said to a full auditorium Monday evening.