Word: hillgarth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Nina Hillgarth, GSAS director of special students and the unofficial head of minority recruitment and admissions at the school, said the GSAS was able to admit more recruited applicants because the Education Testing Service (ETS) this year improved its minority locator service, a program the GSAS admissions office uses in its minority recruiting...
...veracity of the charges centers upon the exact duties of Geraldine Popko, the woman hired last summer to assist Nina Hillgarth, director of special students at GSAS, who is unofficially in charge of GSAS minority admissions activity...
...students contend that Popko has actually relieved Hillgarth of all but her highest level responsibilities coordinating minority recruitment and admissions...
...students supported its allegations with excerpts from an internal GSAS memo written last March by Hillgarth. In the memo, Hillgarth apparently suggested that an individual be hired as her assistant to "handle all correspondence with applicants...read and grade applications for field quality...
Peter S. McKinney, acting dean of the GSAS, said this week that the Hillgarth memo, the students quoted, was meant to be a "candid, internal document," and contained policy alternatives rather than absolute plans for the future...