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...meet what is a fast-approaching deadline, GSAS has invested both time and money--including a $100,000 yearly budget solely for minority recruitment--in increasingly sophisticated recruitment efforts. But the program's success has been limited by the lack of minority role models in academia, the attraction of higher-paying professions such as law, medicine and business, and the relative lack of a minority presence at Harvard...
Blackman, who describes Harvard's recruitment strategy as "fairly sophisticated," says that the University's efforts to locate and admit minority students are geared toward reassuring potential applicants that academia is a viable career option for minorities. And she says that last year's success is a result of a renewed commitment on the part of administrators to beef up GSAS's numbers...
...observers say that Gregorian's ability to make academia seem exciting and important will be of equal help in his efforts to bring talented scholars to the Providence, R.I., campus...
...known president Gregorian for 10 years and [newly-appointed Princeton President Harold] Shapiro for six, and both are deeply commited to the nurturing of the brightest minds in arts and sciences for academia," Freedman says. "Certainly that's one of my major themes here at Dartmouth-promoting more of an understanding and interest in academic fields...
...result of this unusual background has beento lead many, including officials at the center,to wrestle again with what has long been anethical dilemma in academia: when does researchstop being academic and start becoming paidpromotional material...