Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lack self-confidence. "They don't like themselves," she says. What they need to boost their selfesteem, she feels, is to learn more skills. With her husband Donald, 40, an associate law professor at Fordham, she took a small ad in the New York Times last year to recruit female teachers for an informal school that would "offer women options." They had planned to hold classes in friends' living rooms, but when the ad drew more than 400 enthusiastic responses, the Sharpes realized that they had to raise their sights and promptly began making plans for a larger...
...schools is particularly reproachable since it is these schools that feed candidates into the applicant pool for junior faculty positions. The claim that women and minorities do not receive faculty appointments because there is such a paucity of qualified applicants is hypocritical when placed against the meager attempts to recruit women and minorities into the graduate programs and lower level positions...
...proposition at best, but in the law, are brought about and enforced. The goals set for Harvard's affirmative action program must be substantially raised so that a numerical difference in the amount of women and minorities at Harvard finally does occur. And the Faculty should begin to specifically recruit women and minorities as is done in the graduate schools in order to raise the percentages of both of these groups within the University population...
...large decreases in minority admissions are particularly shameful and peculiar, because this was the year when the College devoted more money than ever before to local recruitment efforts. Between $2000 and $2500 was channeled through the admissions office to a special subcommittee of the Association of Afro-American students for undergraduates to recruit. This was also the year when the GSAS specially appointed a minority recruiter to visit numerous colleges and universities, trying to persuade qualified minority candidates to apply here. For the first time, the GSAS this year made use of the Minority Students Locater Test Service, which provides...
...GSAS, the culprits are the individual departments' faculties, which are ultimately responsible for admitting graduate students. Phillip T. Gay, the minority recruiter for the GSAS, realized the departments would be problem when he took the job, but because he was not involved in the admissions process, he could not do anything about it. The 48 departments of the GSAS each admit their own graduate students, and any centralized recruiting effort was bound to fail. But a centralized recruiting policy is not so much to blame as the faculty members who make decisions on admissions. According to Gay, Peter S. McKinney...