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as quoted in the New York Times (September 12, 1993)

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Institutions of higher education in the United States are products of Western society in which masculine values like an orientation toward achievement and objectivity are valued over cooperation, connectedness and subjectivity.

Yolanda Moses

Yolanda Moses (b. 1946), U.S. educator. As quoted in the New York Times, p. 47 (September 12, 1993).

Moses was the recently-appointed President of City College in the City University of New York. The only CUNY trustee to vote against her appointment, Herman Badillo, cited this statement, made by Moses in an article published earlier, when explaining his opposition.

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