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Several administrators are trying to analyze the drop in the number of applications especially among minorities and the consequences of accepting more than 25 per cent of the applicant pool. Kraus and Suzanne M. Lipsky, assistant to the dean for student affairs in the GSAS, blame the tight job market and rising college costs for the drop in applications but they say the drop in some minority applications resulted mainly because of new methods of defining minorities...
...increase in the number of black applicants, but she is not ready to admit discouragement over dramatic decreases in other minority applications. By reclassifying hispanics to exclude those who are South American or have Spanish surnames but are not Puerto Rican or Chicano, Harvard registered a 40 per cent drop in hispanic applicants. But Lipsky says recruitment efforts this year may actually have increased the number of "true" hispanics, an increase the statistics mask. Similarly Native American applicants dropped because to qualify as Native American this year an applicant must satisfy National Bureau of Indian Affairs standards and possess...
...large department chairmen aren't alarmed about a drop in the quality of students. Raymond Siever, chairman of the Geology Department, a department that accepted more than the 25-per-cent figure, says that while GSAS will undoubtedly continue to accept only the best applicants, the school may be tempted to fill a larger percentage of its positions with students who don't need financial assistance from the school...
...women's advocate faces a formidable workload at Harvard. Affirmative action has barely made inroads into the ranks of senior faculty, where only 11 women hold tenured posts--less than 3 per cent of the number of full professors. The Faculty also needs to develop more courses about women and to incorporate more material about women into its existing courses...
...education interests. Many, including the outspoken Sen. Daniel P. Monyihan (D-N.Y.) predict higher education--slated to receive one of every three dollars in the new department's budget--will take a beating under the new system. The post-secondary sector currently accounts for 40 to 50 per cent of federal funds allocated for education, but the inclusion of overseas dependent schools for 135,000 Americans in the Department promises to severely drain available resources...