Faculty Meeting Minutes, October 09, 1982, pages 5-6

Faculty Meeting Minutes, October 09, 1982, pages 5-6

The director of admissions "spoke of the need to develop a more ethnically diverse student body" He says there has been an increase in applications but they need to accept more students. There is also mention of a "Minority Recruitment Day," and he says he will be working with minority students counselors and minority community leaders.

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Faculty Meeting Minutes

[Unpublished]

1982-10-09

2015-11-03

Tatz, Erin

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The mention of the need to recruit more minority students is a common theme throughout the 1980's. In this faculty meeting, the director of Admissions stresses this need, as well as mentioning "Minority Recruitment Day". Such an occasion emphasizes the push in Admissions that existed at the time to attract minority students to Oxy, an impulse that has been seen in multiple eras in Oxy's history. This source shows the existing response in the early 1980's in Admissions to the question of why more minority students were not applying to Oxy.