Word: burtnett
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only is Harvard fighting off other Ivies in attracting African-American students, but it's also fighting the historically Black institutions," says Frank J. Burtnett, executive director of the National Association of College Admission Counselors. "I know it may seem like comparing apples with oranges, but I know of so many youngsters who have said they'll go to Howard for their bachelor's and then to an Ivy for graduate school...
...absence of Harvard, as well as many other elite institutions, at many urban college fairs also misses a large Black population that largely remains untapped by college recruiters, says Burtnett, whose association organizes college fairs at 29 metropolitan areas across the country...
...They may not need to do it, but they are conspicuous in their absence," says Burtnett, adding that the fairs are an effective public relations technique...