Word: percents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Schlesinger Library, though, plays a different role, according to King. She says about 20 percent of the library's users are undergraduates...
Because of its 83 percent female workforce, thesupport staff union at Harvard has organized, andis now negotiating, around such "family issues" asaffordable day care. In the current negotiations,the union has pressed for a broad platform ofchanges, going from large increases in child careto paid parental leave and scholarship money forday care...
...Senior Class this year was less than enthusiastic about contributing to the Class Gift; so far only 38 percent of the class has contributed. The motivation was not the selfishness of which our generation is so often accused; it was not that we could not afford the $25 recommended donation. The reason I heard most often, and the one I felt myself when I was first asked, was "What did Harvard really...
Harvard admissions officials acknowlodged in January, 1988 statement that Asian-American students have been admitted to the College at an average rate of 13.3 percent for the past 10 years, while the figure for white applicants has been 17 percent. However, they claimed that the lower rate stems from the fact that fewer Asian-Americans are varsity athletes or children of alumni, both of whom receive favored admissions status...
Meanwhile, at UCLA the review appears to stem partly from a drop in the undergraduate Asian-American admissions rate, which went from 82.4 percent in 1980 to 38.2 percent in 1987. UCLA officials say that Asian-American and white admissions rates remained comparable in 1983 and 1987, at about 60 percent and 40 percent respectively. The government is also investigating admissions at UCLA's graduate schools of public health, management and engineering...