Word: apprenticeship
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When a student brings a complaint against a faculty member, special care must be taken to avoid harm to the student. This need is particularly great for graduate students because of the apprenticeship nature of graduate studies. Graduate students depend on their advisers not only while completing their degrees, but also for obtaining positions and research funding long into the future. Their careers are at stake in any confrontation with an adviser. The confidentiality that is central to our processes is thus necessary not only to preserve the presumption of innocence for the accused, but also to protect the complainant...
After serving for three years with the U.S. Navy in Morocco, Thomas J. Vittorioso served his apprenticeship in carpentry. But he was drawn away from his trade by the lure of the theater, he says...
...Cambridge Jobs Policy Commission has endorsed certain minimum standards for construction projects in the area: Aside from the legally required wage rate, workers compensation rates and employee classification, the commission also wants contractors to provide health insurance for their employees and to be affiliated with a state certified apprenticeship training program...
...works three. They have no nanny, and they each assume the child-care and household duties on the days they are at home. "In the beginning, when I first found myself with a six-month-old baby, it was frightening," Paul says. But he also argues that his apprenticeship was possible only because his wife was willing to relinquish her power in the . home. "It's something a man really can't do when a wife is at home," he says. "You have to be thrown into the deep...
Twenty years ago, Studs Terkel's Working explored the lives of Americans with jobs that seemed like long-term marriages, frustrating, satisfying, boring, rewarding: familiar, anyway, and built on a rock foundation. Careers had a kind of narrative line. It began with something like apprenticeship and then, in the ideal model, proceeded through hard work and merit to raises, promotions, success and eventual retirement with pension. Seniority and experience meant something: work was as close as Americans came to the Confucian. Getting fired was a disgrace, the scarlet letter...