Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student protests is the growing movement for black student power. From Yale to San Francisco State, Negro activists and some white supporters have sought to make the university become more active in uplift drives in the slum community, to introduce more courses in Afro-American history, and to recruit more Negro students, professors and administrators. In most cases, the administration has quickly acceded to the demands. Last week the trustees of California's 18 state colleges voted to increase, from 2% to 4% of the entering class, the number of Negro, Mexican-American and other minority-group students...
Sert added that a number of professors have expressed willingness to visit other colleges to recruit under-privileged students...
...Black Harvard students traveling to their home cities with Admissions officers during vacations and at other times during the year to recruit black candidates...
...important, however, that a policy of open recruitment on campus not lead to non-thinking on campus about what some recruiting organizations do indeed do in this world. The Advisory Council is also deliberating on a motion that would have some number of signatures require representatives of a recruiting organization to discuss organization policy in an open forum before being allowed to recruit here. Compulsory debate by petition again appears an attempt to judge for others; many organizations, it is possible, may feel they lack the qualified manpower or the time to defend themselves in public debate. They should still...
...Admissions Department, in a joint statement with the Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students, announced yesterday that Harvard will intensify efforts to recruit and admit more black students...