Summary
Admission and Financial Aid Committee Meeting
December 1, 2003
The meeting was called to order at 1:05 PM.
Sumner reported
that he had contacted several key professors and staff on campus in an effort
to determine what arrangements the College might have or had for student
and/or faculty exchanges with historically black colleges, as per the request
of the Committee. He raised 3 questions with these people: do any actual
contracts exist; do any other kinds of records exist; and what personal
knowledge might these people bring to the discussion? Some people responded
and others were re-contacted, resulting in the following information:
No records or contracts seem to exist regarding past or present agreements.
Spelman and Morehouse Colleges were the most often mentioned as institutions Grinnell worked with in the past, although at least 1 other school was mentioned.
That we contact Dr. Irma McClaurin, Deputy Provost at Fisk University in TN (former professor of anthropology here), Dean Siclinda Canty-Elliott, chief students services administrator at Hollins University in VA (former Associate Dean for Student Life here), and Dean James Lincoln, chief student services administrator at DePauw University in IN (former Vice President for Enrollment here), as good sources of information on both the history of these programs at Grinnell and existing opportunities elsewhere.
The Committee
then resumed its discussion of the various ways in which top NCAA Division
III liberal arts colleges recruit and advantage superior athletes in the
admission process. The Committee's ultimate decisions were to;
B) encourage the admission and athletic departments to consider ways in which the best admitted student-athlete might be persuaded to enroll at Grinnell (e.g., special yield activities).
The meeting was adjourned at 1:20 PM.
-Jim Sumner