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Administrators note that the competition among graduate programs for the small number of minorities interested in entering the profession is high. And the GSAS recruitment strategy is designed accordingly, with a large budget, carefully targeted mailings and many recruitment trips geared toward identifying minorities who are both qualified and interested...
...part, those efforts have been rewarded--37 Black and Hispanic students will register today as first-year students at GSAS. And the numbers are the best yield of minority students at GSAS in the 15 years it has been keeping records about the recruitment and admission of minorities, says Blackman...
...that the University's efforts to locate and admit minority students are geared toward reassuring potential applicants that academia is a viable career option for minorities. And she says that last year's success is a result of a renewed commitment on the part of administrators to beef up GSAS's numbers...
Over the course of the past few years, a stepped-up GSAS recruiting effort has expanded the range of the admissions office--as an example, in 1987-'88 GSAS recruiters visited nearly 50 colleges around the country to meet with prospective applicants, whereas the previous year they visited only 12 colleges...
...lynchpin of the GSAS recruitment drive, according to Blackman, is personal contact. Assisted by between 30 and 40 minority graduate students, Blackman travels to colleges around the country and holds both group meetings and individual sessions with prospective minority applicants. She says that sending students out on recruiting trips has been effective because they can address their peers' fears about academia as a viable career option...