Word: recruited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This, admittedly, was a paltry triumph for the nominee of a major party in September, but it conveys the dire mood that had prevailed in the Dukakis camp and the elation over the shifts that were under way. "This is not brain surgery," said Francis O'Brien, a Sasso recruit to the campaign. "Republicans have done it well for years...
...current method of determining whether a high-school recruit is qualified to attend college in the Ivy League is through the Academic Index (AI)--which converts class rank, SAT scores and grades into a sum which is supposed to reflect a student's academic aptitude. If a score is above the AI cutoff point--161--the athlete is qualified for admission. If the score falls short, even by a single point, then the athlete...
...interviews, Brown basketball coach Mike Cingiser has told of student-athletes he tried to recruit who were denied admission because of the AI, but would have gotten into Brown if they hadn't played a sport well...
...policy changes would boost the hand-picked candidates' chance of winning. Harvard would only field a slate of eight candidates, thereby reducing risk of splitting the vote among candidates. A top University official would act as an "executive search director" to recruit candidates. Petition candidates would have to present 800 signatures, instead of the current 250, to gain a place on the ballot...
...University maintains that the difficulties of minority faculty recruitment stem from the small pool of minority graduate students. In response, it has made substantial efforts to increase minority recruitment in the Graudate School of Arts and Sciences. Many who have been critical of the University's efforts to recruit minority faculty question whether such efforts amount to "too little, too late...