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...problem, including peer mentor programs and parent advocacy groups. HKS student Joshua Garriga added that providing decent jobs, encouraging integrity in children, and focusing on education would help close the gap. But HBS professor David A. Thomas offered a caveat to students who may become discouraged after trying to recruit people to help alleviate the discrepancy. “Don’t try and convert those who are not ready to take action,” Thomas said. “Often times we waste our energy trying to convert the uncommitted.” The panelists stressed that...
...extracurriculars are the key part of career training, and academics become, in some sense, extracurricular themselves. According to Bill Wright-Swadel, the director of the Office of Career Services, the perception of liberal arts education as peripheral is not far from the truth when it comes to firms that recruit at Harvard. “Employers that we talk to for the most part tell us that the concentration is not the driving force,” Wright-Swadel says. “Take Computer Science—if you have great computer skills, you can be an English concentrator...
...second assertion of her oblivious argument appears to be that somehow every truly high-end recruit is some poor, stupid kid with no chance at getting into Harvard without athletics. It is as if she has this picture of some kid on the streets who’s got skills, but can’t read. She needs to descend from her ivory tower of stereotypes. Many of our best players—among them potential NHL draft picks—are also some of our smartest. Maybe that doesn’t fit into Caldwell’s image...
...feel very fortunate,” he said. “They’ve done a tremendous job and if I could [recruit staff] again I would do it the same...
...Kenyi of Washington, D.C., another incoming recruit who has verbally committed to the Crimson, have been considered three-star prospects by rivals.com...