1. Those who are tutorial fellows are responsible for undergraduate admissions and tutorial teaching in their college capacities. 2. A new standing committee has been established jointly between the University and the colleges to improve co-ordination and planning on undergraduate admissions matters. 3. Although that case involved the use of race in undergraduate admissions, the ruling again was based on the Bakke decision. 4. And earlier this year, the university reported that despite a record number of students applying for undergraduate admission, the numbers of minority applicants had fallen. 5. Both measures affect undergraduate admissions at state schools, not professional schools, where insuring diversity in small law or medical school classes is considered much more challenging. 6. Carla Ferri, director of undergraduate admissions for UC, said the changes appear positive. 7. Eric J. Furda, executive director of undergraduate admissions at Columbia, said the biggest declines were in applications from California and applications to the engineering school. 8. Even without the Hopwood case, university officials say they were leaning against emphasized tests for undergraduate admissions and professional schools. 9. Five civil rights groups have filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the undergraduate admissions process at the University of California at Berkeley illegally discriminates against minority students. 10. In addition, he is leading the searches for new deans for the schools of medicine and education and for undergraduate admission. |