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...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences' most persistent problems is the lack of applications from minority groups. Despite new plans launched each year, the GSAS does not seem able to increase its minority applicant pool, or even keep it from shrinking. This year there are a total of 12 blacks and three other minorities in an entering class of 535. And while the same number of blacks are entering the GSAS this year as last, even after a 32-per-cent drop in black applicants, the GSAS, by its own admission, failed again last year...
This year, the graduate school has come up with a new plan to increase the pitifully small minority applicant pool, hoping to be able to choose from a larger number of qualified minority applicants. The GSAS plan, if implemented, would enable a prospective graduate student to submit an application to one school and have it reviewed automatically by other schools; this plan would include Harvard, Yale, Princeton and possibly other schools. The major benefit of this "consortium" is that it probably cannot fail to increase the individual departments' awareness of qualified students. The potential drawbacks are that department chairmen...
President Bok's plan is similar to the GSAS one, but it calls for a much larger, centralized recruiting office of up to 40 universities, although it doesn't include an automatic application review by all participating universities. The problems with Bok's plan are similar to those in the GSAS recruiting idea, in terms of passing the buck onto the centralized system. But Bok's additional proposals for more fellowships for minorities and for summer programs exposing minority students to graduate schools are both good and should be included in the overall strategy to attract more minority students...
...GSAS, unlike the College, has a decentralized admissions process, with each department ultimately accepting and rejecting its own candidates. The central office, which Kraus now directs, is responsible for receiving applications and financial aid requests, as well as routing them to the appropriate department...
...addition to the personnel shuffle, McKinney said, the GSAS is currently reviewing all administrative functions of the newly combined office, to find ways to "smooth out the flow of paper work...