"I think they are doing a good job reaching out to students with mixed backgrounds whose parents may not have even gone to college," she says.
But she feels the school could do a better job integrating the minorities with the rest of the school.
"At times I felt like I shouldn't be here and the school didn't do anything to help that," she says.
Ochoa also feels that there should be a stronger effort to recruit more Latino faculty.
"I have been asked so many times where I'm from in Mexico. I tell them I'm American, I've only been there once on vacation. I would like to see someone who could come in and address this," Ochoa says.
A Scholar and an Activist
"He is a wonderful appointment for Harvard...a terrific scholar-activist," Murphy says.
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