Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Individual departments' faculties who are responsible for admitting students at the graduate school level have failed continually to conduct searches for qualified minority candidates. The situation will not improve until these people are sensitized to the importance of increasing the size of the minority applicant pool so that there is a better likelihood of admitting more minority students...
...focus of their efforts. Instead, for every teaching appointment a department has to file a statement proving that it made a careful search beforehand and tried to find minority and women candidates, and for non-teaching appointments employers have to list openings beforehand to encourage a wide applicant pool. Once the search for applicants is made, whoever is doing the hiring theoretically proceeds to hire the best qualified person for the job; it is more likely that minorities or women will be hired than it was before the days of affirmative action simply because there will be more women...
...affirmative action approach is full of problems. Its goals are close enough to being quotas to alarm academics, and far enough removed to be unable to guarantee substantive results. At institutions like Harvard, where the turnover in high-ranking teaching jobs is tiny and the applicant pool of black Ph.D.s small, affirmative action moves at a snail's pace. There are more than 700 full professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Harvard's affirmative action program projects and increase between 1973 and 1976 from nine to 15 tenured minorities and from 18 to 37 tenured women...
Funnyman Flip Wilson might just be the biggest thing to hit Boley, Okla. (pop. 500) since the dust storms of the 1930s. When the town adopted the TV comedian as its honorary police chief last February, Wilson promised to contribute $10,000 for a new swimming pool. Last week he came to deliver. "We've got a $5,000 check for a police car," proclaimed Wilson during festivities for the town's 70th anniversary, "and now we're going to start working on $22,000 for a fire truck." Great, but what about the pool? "He wanted...
Students were admitted in approximately the same male to female ratio as they applied, from a pool of 735 applicants...