High level University officials--like deans of individual schools--are almost always chosen from senior faculty. Without tenured minority professors, there can't be minorities in the most prominent University positions.
But before you're a professor, you have to get through graduate school. And that's where GSAS comes in.
Keeping the Pipeline Full
And GSAS continues to work hard to get minority students to apply to Harvard.
They send current students and administrators to specific universities, to meet potential applicants, advertise the school and play up the Harvard experience.
Berg says that his office targets historically black colleges as well as large state universities.
"Getting faculty members out to do that type of recruiting is very important too," says Garth O. McCavana, assistant dean for student affairs in GSAS.
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