Word: number
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard took the field thinking it was a number-one team. And the Crimson, again, played like a number one team...
Some things have also changed for the worse. Several alumni expressed concern about the shrinking number of Harvard students from who come from lower-income Black families and attributed alterations in the Harvard Black community to this shift...
Black students also lack role models because of a longstanding dearth of minority faculty members. Black student protestors in 1969 demanded more Black faculty members, and students protested the same problem as recently as yesterday. The problem is a national one, in part because a disproportionately small number of Black students enter Ph.D. programs...
...first glance, the new set of Harvard admissions figures released two weeks ago seem to give cause for most advocates of diversity to cheer. In a year when the number of applicants overall declined 11 percent, the proportion of minorites admitted jumped slightly (about 1.5 percent) to 32.3 percent. Meanwhile, two groups--Hispanics and Asian-Americans--reached all-time high representation within the admitted Class of 1993 at 6.9 and 15.3 percent respectively, although levels for Black and Native American students remained virtually unchanged at 9.6 and .5 percent each...
...more troubling pattern common in non-minority admissions may be appearing in that of minorities as well--with more devastating results. The trend is this: as the number of qualified, diverse student applicants increases, the pressure Harvard faces to recruit economically disadvantaged students actually decreases. For instance, when more Hispanic student applicants from outside the Southwest and from wealthier backgrounds gain admission--as happens as the Hispanic community grows--those in the barrios and inner cities face higher odds against admission...