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...result of the Academic Index is a sharp reduction in the number of basketball players that are eligible to play for Ivy League teams. "There's no doubt about it that the Al keeps our pool down," Cormier says. "All the Ivies are going after the same kids...
...feel we're having more difficulty attracting some of the top athletes because it's so tough to finance an education," Yale Coach Carmen Cozza says. "We're also having trouble getting a big pool of athletes because of the academic standards...
Championships at Blodgett Pool...
...argument that the embarassingly low number of minority professors reflects the small pool of minority Ph.D. candidates, the report provides a firm if depressing answer. While Harvard has not hired minorities, in most cases it has not even sought them out. In five departments reviewed in the report, 10 separate searches last year looked over 750 applicants--and like the year before only four were minorities. Eight years ago, a study known as the Whitla report revealed that the names of minority candidates that showed up on other major universities' search lists were absent from Harvard...
There is a pool to be tapped, however small, and to the extent Harvard refuses or forgets to draw from it is the extent to which that pool will remain small--the more minority faculty hired, the more likely that minority students will consider academia as a career...