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...shifting social conditions manifests itself in several of his other works, including Glory, which recounts the story of the 54th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. Composed of black soldiers and led by a white man, the regiment spurred the recruit of other black men in a war that ultimately led to the abolition of slavery...
...SEVIS is also problematic. Unlike Harvard, most institutions do not have the funding to cover additional costs for these students. Such a policy can only lead to a loss of diversity in student bodies nationwide, as fewer resources are available to recruit foreign talent. What is worse, an independent consulting firm projected the cost per student at $54, indicating that the DHS plans not only to charge the students for the maintenance of the project, but to profit from them as well...
...student who works in the admissions office offers his own advice. “If you really want to make a commitment to socioeconomic diversity, you have to recruit,” he says. “You don’t even have to have the programs [like Columbia], you just have to have a structure to recruit low-income students...
...obscure Defense Department page, which has since been deleted, was an announcement of an effort to recruit new members to fill the many vacant seats on community draft boards nationwide—boards that have sat by idly with no function since the end of the Vietnam War. “Serve Your Community and the Nation,” the announcement urged, “If a military draft becomes necessary, approximately 2,000 Local and Appeal Boards throughout America would decide which young men... receive deferments, postponements or exemptions from military service.” An estimated...
Harvard gives preference in admissions to students from low-income backgrounds, and aims to recruit high-performing students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds by sending search letters, visiting high schools and paying for admitted students’ campus visits. But while the admissions office supports a Minority Recruitment Program, it has no parallel program for low-income recruitment...