Black Issues in Higher Education, December 24th, 1998
"You've got to know the shape of the river perfectly. It is all there is left to steer by on a very dark night." So begins Derek Bok and Dr. William Bowen's new book, The Shape of the River, one of the first books to demonstrate the power of race-sensitive admissions practices. The former presidents of Harvard and Princeton universities evoke the image of Mississippi riverboat pilots winding through fogs, slow eddies, and hidden bluffs.
Perhaps that is what 1998 felt like to those who fought to provide access to Blacks in higher education only to watch in dismay as 30 years of progress was ...
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