Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...meeting with the executive committee, a group formed by Dean Rosovsky last fall to recruit new Afro-Am senior faculty, Huggins discussed the main candidates for tenured positions, he said yesterday...
...fall of 1968, Black students at Harvard demanded an increase in the number of Black students admitted, and the right to recruit in Third World communities in hopes of increasing the working class Third World population, a group hitherto ignored...
...early actions taken by Third World students collectively was in the area of affirmative action with respect to Asian Americans. Asians were not allowed to benefit from Harvard's affirmative action programs until Third World students forced their recognition as a minority group. The support of other Third World groups in this effort represented a consolidation of unity and the surmounting of the age-old tactic of "divide and conquer," while highlighting the need for a greater centralization of Third World activities...
...other component of admissions work has been the Minority admissions and recruitment program carried out by each organization. Each group sends recruiters to Third World communities nationwide and undertakes other support and lobbying activities which has resulted in the growth of Third World enrollment. While these programs have grown under the separate jurisdiction of each Third World organization, they have always worked together throughout the years in presenting a united front in developing annual budgets, maintaining and expanding the Minority Admissions and Recruitment program in the face of cutbacks, and in working together on orientation and other activities. Admissions work...
...activities. Minority Freshperson Orientation and Prefreshperson Weekend were major programs instituted by Third World students. Once the Admissions Office granted the activities, it became necessary for students strengthen and consolidate those programs. the programs and present their view of life at Harvard-Radcliffe. Through these programs in-coming minority group people are encouraged to consider their tenure here in light of the history and contemporary situation of Third World people in society and at Harvard...