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Article: Schools eye minority recruitment programs
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- March 23, 2006
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Tiffany Webber
University Wire
03-23-2006
(The Chronicle) (U-WIRE) DURHAM, N.C. -- As admissions officers at colleges and universities across the country put the finishing touches on acceptance, waitlist and rejection letters, the debate about specialized student recruiting rages on.
Although few dispute the importance of holding recruitment programs for prospective scholars, many people affiliated with higher education are beginning to reassess the value of hosting minority recruitment weekends.
"Coming off of the Civil Rights Movement, there was a sense that you can't expect [minority] students to walk into a newly integrated place and feel like they belonged there on the same terms as ...