Minority Recruitment at Midd

Minority Recruitment at Midd

Associate Dean of Students, Arnold McKinney, explains why he believes that there are so few "minority" students at Middlebury. He blames this on the fact that very few minority students 'fit the admission criteria for white students and explains how the College uses different standards to evaluate non-white applicants.'"

Volume 71, Number 19

W. Diller

The Campus

5/4/1977

Arnold McKinney- Associate Dean of Students

"'Interviews are very important and recommendations are more important with black students. Basically, intelligence is not the prime factor. Gut factor is. We look for people who have enough guts to pick themselves up when they get knocked down.'"- McKinney