Kirk Holmes
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Kirk Holmes graduated from Stanford with an MBA in 1987. In this oral history, he discusses participating in a voluntary school desegregation experiment in Rochester, New York, in the 1960s and the circumstances that led him to enroll in Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He describes the culture of the GSB during the 1980s, commenting on the extremely small number of students of color, the GSB’s seclusion from the rest of the university, and the pervasive sense of elitism at the school. He advises current professional students to work to integrate themselves into the larger Stanford community and offers thoughts on how the GSB and the corporate world might increase diversity and inclusion.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Extent | 1 text file |
| Place | Stanford (Calif.) |
| Date created | April 5, 2019 |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | born digital |
Creators/Contributors
| Interviewee | Holmes, Kirk | |
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| Interviewer | Hartwig, Daniel | |
| Sponsor | Stanford National Black Alumni Association | |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Subjects
| Subject | Stanford University. Graduate School of Business |
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| Subject | African American college students |
| Subject | Universities and colleges > Alumni and alumnae |
| Subject | Stanford University. Students > 1980s |
| Genre | Interview |
Bibliographic information
| Audio |
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| Finding Aid | |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/qy609pn5737 |
| Location | SC1473 |
| Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA. For commercial permission requests, please contact the copyright holders or Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
- Copyright
- Copyright © Kirk Holmes. All rights reserved.
Collection
Stanford University, Stanford National Black Alumni Association, Records, 2019
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