Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jackson has carefully refrained from putting himself on the line. He has proven that among Democratic candidates, virtually all Black voters prefer him. As it stands now, he regularly can be counted on to attract virtually all of the Black vote in the Democratic primaries, and to garner about 30 percent, at the most, of the total popular vote during the quest for the nomination...
...long-term solution to the problem is enticing more minorities to enter academia. In the last few months Harvard has launched programs to attract minorities to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), both at Harvard and across the country...
Harvard's efforts to attract minorities will focus on "getting the news out," Vendler says. The main efforts toward Harvard undergraduates will include informational meetings at the DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research and within concentrations. GSAS sends a brochure to prospective students, and the school encourages students who have not taken the traditional educational route to explore the possibility of graduate school...
Dominguez says that attracting Hispanics to GSAS has been a particular problem. He says that when the University made a commitment to increase the number of minority students some years ago, GSAS was the one school that was unable to attract many Hispanics...
Even if efforts to attract minorites to graduate schools are successful, they will not reach fruition for about 12 years, when students now beginning Ph.D programs will be up for tenure. And in the meantime, the system risks self-perpetuation because minority students may be reluctant to come to an institution where there are few minority faculty members...