Word: chairmen
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...graduate students, and any centralized recruiting effort was bound to fail. But a centralized recruiting policy is not so much to blame as the faculty members who make decisions on admissions. According to Gay, Peter S. McKinney, administrative dean of the GSAS, sent out letters to all department chairmen advising them of the need to recruit. Gay said that he got back no positive responses from anyone...
When these department chairmen sign their letters of acceptance this week, they should think about how they could have improved the situation. If they had attempted to go out and conduct a search for qualified black candidates they would have had a larger pool to chose from, and consequently more blacks may have been admitted...
...chairmen's remarks come in the wake of criticism from David L. Evans, associate dean of Harvard admissions. Evans said this week that some alumni in various Harvard Clubs around the country--particularly the clubs in the East--engage in an active effort to discourage minority students from coming here...
...chairmen of the committees in New York, Chicago, and Indiana could not be reached for comment last night...
Rosovsky will select the faculty and student members in consultation with the individual chairmen...