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...most hotly debated issue at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences last year was the question of minority recruitment and admissions. Ever since affirmative action became a widely acknowledged issue, the GSAS has been trying to design policies to recruit, admit and keep minority Ph.D. candidates...
...none of the programs has been particularly successful--as demonstrated by the fact that less than 4 per cent of the total GSAS student body last year was black, Hispanic-American or native American...
After months of discussion between the Faculty Council and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, administrators and students, Dean Rosovsky unveiled a plan this spring to reorganize minority recruiting and admission at the GSAS, a school which has traditionally had very low levels of minority enrollment...
...plan, similar to the program the minority students committee proposed back in December, broadened the minority financial aid program and set up a Faculty committee to continually review GSAS minority recruitment and admissions policy. The new committee will also execute the most controversial aspect of the reorganization plan: writing the job description and conducting the search for a new GSAS minority admissions administrator...
...term's end, Rosovsky had not yet selected members for the new committee, and a spokesman for the GSAS minority student group expressed doubt that a suitable person for the post could be hired by this September...