Word: recruiter
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...recent report on Minority Faculty Recruitment by the Harvard Minority Students Alliance demonstrated the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' dismal lack of any effort to recruit more minority faculty. The departments of Arts, Chemistry, and Biology--only 16 History, and Biology made 11 job searches and received 721 applications in 1986-87. Only four of these applications were from minorities, indicating that these departments make almost no effort to recruit minority applications, let alone to hire minorities...
Welcome to the April rush. Across the country last week, colleges were scrambling to land academic superstars. The reason for their push to recruit: with the baby boom busted, enrollments have been on a slow but steady slide since 1980. This has prompted even the fussiest schools to adopt glitzy new marketing gimmicks for wooing top prospects. "Everybody's hustling," says Robert Thornton, director of admissions at New College in Florida. Last week Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., held an open house featuring a student play and poetry readings to emphasize the school's strength in the arts. Colgate...
...find myself being able to recruit the very rich or the very poor," Cingiser says. "The middle income kids get killed...
...lack of scholarships is not the only hinderance coaches face when trying to recruit athletes. The student-athletes must be expected to perform in the classroom as well as on the court. To facilitate the determination of whether the student is a legitimate Ivy League student, an Academic Index (AI)--composed of class rank, Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and Achievement Test scores--has been devised for athletes. Anyone falling below the cutoff point of 161 may not be recruited by Ivy coaches...
...Harvard, frustration over the issue has been vented in a more tempered way, taking the shape of a six-page report by the Minority Students Alliance. The work of students and faculty, the report offers a broad and damning critique of the University's efforts, or lack thereof, to recruit minority professors. But the facts the report highlights are sufficiently shocking to suggest that unless the University heeds the recommendations and acts in a strong manner to rectify the situation, the path of reasoned discourse will soon become less appealing...