Word: associationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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On April 14, 1997, the Association of American Universities (AAU) adopted a statement in support of affirmative action. Rudenstine helped draft the statement, which ran in both The New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Every Ivy League institution is a member of the AAU, with the exception...
In March, Harvard announced that it was joining the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a government-initiated partnership of businesses and other concerned parties that will start monitoring next year.
PSLM members have asked the University to withdraw from the FLA. Because it has ties with industry, student activists say, the association is likely to do spotty and infrequent inspections, and might not have a strong enough commitment to disclosing factory locations.
% OF STUDENTS RECEIVING SOME KIND OF FINANCIAL AID [Public] 45% [Private] 52% Sources: Chronicle of Higher Education Almanac; National Center for Education Statistics; American Association of University Professors
GOING UP IN SMOKE Add one more curse to the experience of a horrible childhood. A study in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association reports that adults who had experienced five or more negative childhood situations--such as abuse, divorce of parents or living with a drunken...