On this week's on the media, the leadership crisis at Harvard and the backlash to decades of diversity efforts didn't begin or end with the resignation of its first black president last year.

Diversity wasn't much of an important political term in the 1970s.

Integration was a much bigger term. You know, nobody was buying stock in diversity.

There is no racially blind method of selection, which will enroll today more than a

trickle of minority students in the nation's colleges. I refer, in my opinion, to the Harvard

admissions program. As one example of how race properly, in my opinion, may be taken into account.

True free speech has been curtailed on many campuses and conservative voices have been shouted down.

We have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country.

Stay tuned for the gripping finale of our series, The Harvard Plan.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Michael Lowinger.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

For the past two weeks, we've brought you the Harvard Plan, our series produced with the Boston Globe about the crisis in American higher education.

We focused on our country's oldest and richest college, and as you've heard, a place with a very idea of diversity has come under a lot of scrutiny of late.

Actually, though, diversity has always been associated with Harvard.

I mean, how do you think El Woods got into Harvard law in Legally Blonde?

She does have a 4.0 from CULA, and she got a 179 on her LSAT's.

A fashion major?

Well, sir, we've never had one before, and aren't we always looking for diversity?

And in the social network, it's how the Mark Zuckerberg character rationalizes getting

snubbed by an exclusive social club after his friend Eduardo gets an invitation.

It probably was a diversity thing.

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