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It's interesting how we may cognitively accept this action as progress or effort, but have no specific understanding of what is being achieved or it's relative
by boh 4y ago
It's interesting how we may cognitively accept this action as progress or effort, but have no specific understanding of what is being achieved or it's relative value.
Superficially we may assume $100 million extra dollars is being spent on something but it's difficult to tell if that's the case. It seems to instead be an allocation of existing funds to support minority students? But then you'd have to ask, were they previously not being supported but the much larger existing endowment?
Harvard seems to have done something good and I think that's the point of the website and the overall messaging, but we are given a limited amount of details to articulate exactly what this good thing is and whether it's a material change.