Recruitment of Underrepresented Student Groups

During most of this century, entry to medical school was considered a privilege accorded to few, as was admission to college in general. The aftermath of World War II, with its great influx of veterans into colleges, yielded major changes in the type of people attending college. This change was followed by the social concerns of the 1960s and the recognition that minorities were not afforded equal access to education. Medical schools responded to this inequity by recruiting minority students and enlarging opportunities for women and for students without science majors [10, 11, 12, 14]. The early efforts between 1968 and 1972 to recruit minority students were at least somewhat successful; black enrollment doubled between 1969 and 1972, with the number of enrolled minority students increasing sixfold in Caucasian-dominated medical schools. Despite these efforts, minorities continued to be underrepresented, comprising 9.5 percent of the 1982-83 entering class. As effective as the recruitment procedures seem to have been, it cannot be assumed that the increase in minority medical school applicants was due solely to recruitment by medical schools. The social environment was such that many factors may have encouraged the increase in applicants. For example, women's acceptance into medical schools has steadily increased so that they represented 33 percent of the entering

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• Postsecondary Enrollment Patterns After Court-Ordered Desegregation

  James C O Nyankori•The Journal of Negro Education•1991

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• Recruiting minority students and faculty for graduate and professional schools

  Mary Jane Brustman•Journal of Criminal Justice…•1991

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• Agenda for reform

  David A Erlandson•Journal of Education Policy•1990

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