Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bear, but it nonetheless holds fast to the contention that its decision to file the brief came from deep concern for minorities. Yet, until Harvard demonstrates that this committment is stronger than that shown in the deficient affirmative action plans--and until Harvard begins to make convincing efforts to recruit minorities and to offer an educational alternative to intellectual assimilation--it is hard not to agree with Leon Fraser '75, president of Afro, and other minority students who contend that Harvard has stepped into the case because it fears losing control over the admission of groups far more dear...
Harvard should have a single, one-to-one-based admissions office, and accept more women and fewer men than it does now. The financial aid departments should also be united, so that women can get as much aid as men do, and the admissions office should recruit women as actively as it does...
...that student activism has passed, black students have lost their only means of influencing Harvard admissions policy. Blacks are going to have to come to grips with their powerlessness in both alumni and faculty quarters. While it is not blacks's exclusive responsibility to go out and recruit, it is incumbent upon them to reinitiate an active vigil over Harvard admissions. If black students neglect this responsibility there is nobody else to carry it out for them...
There are two versions of what happened next. The poor whites say Crooks and Meriwether decided to open the program to poor whites and, even though the application deadline for the 1973 program had passed, to allow the poor whites to recruit white students for that summer. Crooks, on the other hand, says he told the poor whites that the program did not exclude whites but was primarily for ethnic minorities. He says he did not tell the poor whites to recruit white students for the program...
Minority enrollment at American four-year colleges and universities has nearly doubled in the past decade, mostly as a result of the conscious efforts by admissions offices to recruit and include minorities...