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Even though the cuts are still relatively modest, they have incensed Penn's dean of admissions and financial aide, George A. Schlekat, 33, himself a full-scholarship student at Penn twelve years ago. Last week Schlekat resigned in protest, calling the policy "suicidal." Penn President Martin Meyerson is tightening up sharply in other areas besides scholarships; he is seeking to save by imposing a ban on new faculty hiring. But Schlekat argues that the administration could have made further sacrifices to help needy students, particularly in the university's "rather grand research facilities." Schlekat is certain that...
...Schlekat and Meyerson agree that the long-range solution is more federal aid for colleges, but that is hardly close at hand. Neither, in fact, is heterogeneity in U.S. higher education. Despite all the recent efforts to enroll minority-group students, a forthcoming report by the Ford Foundation says that the number of black students will have to increase by 116% before black and white America have the same proportion of their children in college. For other minorities the gap is still more dramatic. If they are to pull abreast of whites, enrollment of Puerto Ricans will have to grow...
...Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Geore B. Schlekat, resigned this weekend in a dispute with the Pennsylvania administration over the university's admissions policy...
According to sources at Pennsylvania, Schlekat promised to improve the overall academic standards of the entering freshman class when he took office four years...
Since then, however, Schlekat's office has stressed "diversity of background rather than academic excellence" in accepting freshmen. As a result, the average SAT scores of Penn entrants has shown an annual decrease over the last three years, which drew considerable criticism from many members of the Pennsylvania faculty...