Word: fill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...buyer's market as colleges scramble to fill spaces...
...April is nail-biting time for high school seniors as they stand vigil over their mailboxes, looking for letters of acceptance from colleges. The weeks that follow, on the other hand, are nail-biting times for the colleges, as they fret over how many students will accept their acceptances, fill their dormitories and keep their budgets in the black...
With the pool of applicants growing smaller every year, many colleges increasingly are being reduced to using hard-sell tactics to fill their classes. By 1985 the high school age group will have dwindled by an estimated 15% to 30%, and the downtrend is likely to continue at least until 1990. Predicted one admissions officer: "It will become a buyer's market...
...smaller, less prestigious colleges are having to scramble even harder. Nathaniel Hawthorne College in Antrim, N.H., offers flying lessons as an inducement, and still has only managed to attract half the day students it needs to fill its freshman class this fall. "We simply can't sit back and let the applications roll in any more," mourns Ed Schoenberg, assistant director of admissions at California's Whittier College. Among Whittier's schemes for luring students: generous scholarships, attractive brochures, and "Spring Dessert Days," when candidates are entertained by alumni. Many colleges are placing advertisements in newspapers; some...
...reason is that blacks today have the education to fill higher-paid jobs. The average black male worker in 1970 had only 1.2 fewer years of schooling than the average white, and the gap is probably smaller now. Affirmative-action programs have opened many new jobs to women-especially blacks-and the industrialization of the South has, been another powerful force. Half of all Southern black women who had jobs in 1960 worked as domestics. By 1970 the figure was down to 25%, and for black women age 21 to 25, a mere...