Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Success. Rock Wives by Victoria Balfour is in the Schlesinger Library. Now all we have to do is walk up there...
...meet what is a fast-approaching deadline, GSAS has invested both time and money--including a $100,000 yearly budget solely for minority recruitment--in increasingly sophisticated recruitment efforts. But the program's success has been limited by the lack of minority role models in academia, the attraction of higher-paying professions such as law, medicine and business, and the relative lack of a minority presence at Harvard...
Blackman, who describes Harvard's recruitment strategy as "fairly sophisticated," says that the University's efforts to locate and admit minority students are geared toward reassuring potential applicants that academia is a viable career option for minorities. And she says that last year's success is a result of a renewed commitment on the part of administrators to beef up GSAS's numbers...
...There are some very practical problems with academia as a career. [Minorities] are not as familiar with academic careers, and their parents see straighter lines of success in professions," Harrison says...
...will also have to pay attention to the students, who remain a volatile factor. After its success in bringing about democratization, the student movement drifted in search of an issue and finally settled on a new cause: the reunification of North and South. Since nearly all Southerners yearn for a united country, the students found themselves setting the pace again. On July 7, Roh attempted to maneuver his administration into a leading role in the reunification drive with proposals aimed at a thaw in relations with Pyongyang, but the government of Kim Il Sung, reluctant to appear upstaged, responded coolly...