Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interview last week, Jewett explained that the function of Harvard's trips to prep schools is not primarily to recruit, but to provide each applicant the staff interview to which he is entitled. "If you're going to talk about would resources of time and effort, to have a hundred Exeter students making a trip down" is a much greater waste, he said. Harvard does not grant interviews to prep school students when they visit Harvard...
EVEN IF MINORITY RECRUITMENT is only a secondary responsibility for most staff members and alums who do admissions work, one element of the recruitment effort--the student recruitment office--exists entirely for the purpose of minority recruitment...
Jewett likes to speak well of this program. When asked where the main thrust of Harvard's minority recruitment effort lies, he responds that, "While the main impetus for recruitment has got to come from staff, students--certainly in the areas they focus on--would probably be at least equal in terms of what they produce...
...students say, however, that their effectiveness is severely limited by a lack of support from the Admissions Office. The staff has acted repeatedly in less than a supportive manner, they...
...important, but the rules and guidelines they criticize may be indicative of a generally negative attitude among regular admissions officers toward the program. According to Enrique Moreno '78, one of the students who has worked longest in the program, the recruiters "are always at square one with the admissions staff. Harvard has no long-range plans for us. Each year I've been here we've gone knocking on Jewett's door, asking for funds. Each year, we've been getting them, but we are constantly forced to legitimate ourselves, adopting at best a defensive position...