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...serve the African and South Asian markets, its timing is lousy. It missed the dotcom boom and must compete against more established hubs in Singapore and Malaysia. But opportunities remain. Because both London and Paris ruled the island, many Mauritians speak English and French, making the island an attractive bilingual base for American companies doing business in Africa and Asia. IBM, Oracle and Microsoft have opened regional offices there, and last month work began on a $50 million "cyber city" to attract new software and IT companies. The government promises low taxes, duty-free imports of IT equipment and automatic...
Harvard is losing ground in its effort to attract blacks. The University’s highest yield for black students, 74.1 percent, came in 1996 and has been declining ever since. This disturbing statistic shows that while our black student yield has been strong compared to other Ivy League colleges, Harvard has been suffering as other colleges have stepped up their recruitment efforts. As a consequence, Harvard has for the first time in 20 years been surpassed by Stanford University, which has a black student yield of 64.4 percent this year...
...black students to their first-year classes than Harvard. As Harvard considers its strategies for combating this downward trend and competes with these other top-tier schools for students who will continue its commitment to diversity, it should look to emulate the strategies employed by other schools to attract minority candidates...
While groups like Harvard Radio Broadcasting (WHRB) have managed to attract more first-year students after an initial lull, PBHA remains extremely short-staffed...
Student leaders, meanwhile, have redoubled their efforts to attract first-years. Some, like WHRB, have succeeded, while others have pressed forward with fewer human resources...