Word: recruite
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Martin added that although the division does not have "an intensive special program" to recruit minority students and women, it supports affirmative action guidelines and solicits applications from such students...
...Minority recruitment and admissions have had a brief history at Harvard. Due mainly to the struggles of Third World and other progressive people during the '60s, the nation was forced to realize it could no longer condone the exploitation of its citizens of color. Harvard, too, was affected by this movement. In the fall of 1968, black students at Harvard demanded an increase in the number of black students admitted, and the right to recruit in Third World communities in hopes of increasing the working class Third World population, a group hitherto ignored...
...could three people effectively and with due consideration visit their assigned areas; read hundreds of applications and assess them; recruit in all the major black communities; present candidates' cases before the admissions committee; lend support and help all student recruitment efforts; lead a personal life; and maintain their sanity at the same time? It was clear to the students that this type of tokenism was being used by Harvard to undermine the Third World recruitment effort. The perseverance of Black students in questioning this force resulted in the rein-statement of black student recruitment...
There is a need for Third World people to recruit their own. Staff people insensitive to the experience of Third World people cannot and will not do a good job recruiting people they do not understand. Nor will they do a good job evaluating them. What is needed are more full-time Third World admissions officers, officers who share the same background as the large majority of Third World applicants...
...organizations recruit through the school's placement office, through which approximately 40 per cent of last year's graduates found jobs...