Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richardson continues, he never goes to a school just to recruit minority students. "That's not our purpose. We haven't got time for that," he says...
...minority recruitment program may have a random quality because of this division of responsibilities among alumni and staff members. Brad Richardson, a Harvard admissions officer since 1969, says that of the roughly six weeks he spends on the road recruiting each year, he does some minority recruitment work "just about every day. For example, every school in Miami where I recruit has a certain number of blacks and Spanish-speaking people, so you're bound to run into some of those kinds of people there...
...places where Harvard does spend its time and money may reveal something about the priorities of the admissions program. Like Richardson, most staff members are on the road between six and eight weeks a year, both to recruit and to conduct interviews. While Jewett says he cannot be precise about the kind of effort that goes into minority recruitment, he does say he has a clear picture of other segments of the applicant pool...
...interview last week, Jewett explained that the function of Harvard's trips to prep schools is not primarily to recruit, but to provide each applicant the staff interview to which he is entitled. "If you're going to talk about would resources of time and effort, to have a hundred Exeter students making a trip down" is a much greater waste, he said. Harvard does not grant interviews to prep school students when they visit Harvard...
...that the students don't appreciate the need to establish a certain appearance of professionalism. Thus, the other reason for the decision on the phones was something the students viewed at the time as another strip of that bureaucratic red tape. Setting up dates on the phone to recruit at a school looks unprofessional, Young says, adding that he insisted students write the school guidance counselors a letter first, "with a 'cover' letter from the dean, so as to give the students some legitimacy...