Toward Affirmative Action for Economic Diversity

When Lawrence H. Summers, president of Harvard University, recently announced a plan to deal with the barriers to economic diversity at Harvard, he put the spotlight

on higher education's dirty little secret: While colleges have admirably focused on creating racially integrated student bodies, they haven't given comparable help to economically disadvantaged students.

Summers says he plans to expand financial aid for low-income students and to actively recruit them in what could

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