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...proposed plan--the details of which will be worked out at a meeting in New Haven on September 29--may be impemented for this year's applicants, and should include several other prestigious Eastern graduate schools, Nina P. Hillgarth, director of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) admissions, said yesterday. Hillgarth said the hopes the program will eventually be nationwide...
...Physics Department, one of the most affected among the sciences. "But typically the choices of academic positions available include some that are less desirable than corresponding students would have ended up with in Sputnik times." And although statistics compiled by Donna G. Martyn, director of placement for the GSAS, indicate that as of November 1974 over a quarter of the previous year's English Ph.D.'s remained unemployed, Jerome Buckley, professor of English and director of placement for the department, maintains, "Most people in English who've actually completed their theses do have jobs, though sometimes not always the jobs...
McKinney says an important ameliorative measure was the GSAS's decision, six or seven years ago, to cut enrollment. The entering class has since been sliced in half and overall enrollment is down from about 3000 to 2100. While the cuts were intially inspired by the fear that the GSAS had grown too large, McKinney says, the move was certainly welltimed, given the difficulties of placement, as well as the University's present financial headaches...
...spite of efforts by the GSAS, most officials and students at the Graduate School continue to believe that prospects for the academic market are dim, with no substantial improvement in sight. "It's possible that the intellectual and economic climate of the country is so bad at this time that no matter what we do, a large number of Ph.D.'s won't get jobs," McKinney says matter-of-factly. "But so far, at least, having a Ph.D. is still better than not having a high school diploma...
...said the GSAS "will not have a minority recruiter as such" next year because "recruiting for the whole graduate school does not seem to work very well," though, he added. Nina P. Hillgarth, head of the GSAS admissions office, will work with the six other universities to interest minority students in Harvard...