Word: melnick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undergraduates in the recruitment process. Our experience has been that students are effective in identifying and encouraging talented high school students to apply and, upon admission, to come to Harvard/Radcliffe. Minority students have been extraordinarily helpful in recruiting minority high school students for the colleges and, contrary to Mr. Melnick's conclusions, their efforts have been held in highest regard by the Committee. --Robert P. Young...
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...Peter Melnick's piece, "Minority Recruitment at Harvard: Still A Ways To Go," (1/23/78) leads one to certain inevitable conclusions about minority recruitment at Harvard...
...Melnick points out, Harvard's slipshod minority recruitment program is indicative of its slipshod commitment. The institutional framework of minority recruitment at Harvard is characterized by its unprofessionalism. It is obvious from Melnick's piece that student recruitment, a major thrust of recruitment at Harvard, is undercut; that professional recruitment is not a formal institutional objective; and that disorganization and incoherence pervade the minority recruitment effort in such a way that, in the future, these may serve as excuses to cut off all funds and cancel all obligations. As Enrique Moreno correctly observes, student recruitment will have to justify itself...
...even-handed fashion, Melnick points out that the students don't represent the height of professionalism--for the primary reason that they are not professionals. The use of students as a major component of the recruitment directive--students without training, students without real office support, students without compensation, and students without adequate operating funds--looks in fact like an attempt by the admissions office to discredit and cripple minority recruitment...