Word: bolstered
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...response, Nye moved to bolster the school’s Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP), which offers financial aid to alums in low-salary public service jobs. He made changes that increased LRAP’s budget five-fold—with stunning results. Last year, just 20 percent of Kennedy School graduates took private-sector positions...
...department was formed in 1969, the University and the department conflicted over its budget and tenuring of its professors. In early April, representatives from the Black Students Association (BSA), the SASC and several other student groups bound together and called for a boycott of classes to bolster the Af-Am department...
...associate vice president for human resources on Sept. 1. In place of the traditional associate vice president—who answers to the vice president for administration—the new top-level official will work directly under University President Lawrence H. Summers, a change union leaders say will bolster the influence of the Human Resources department...
After a series of highly publicized stumbles, administrators finally responded with a solid campaign to bolster security. Thanks in large part to the efforts of Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd, Harvard has built a stronger University infrastructure capable of combating assaults on campus. Revamping what had been a very decentralized system, the administration has moved to combine the resources of HUPD, College administrators, Mass. Hall officials, facilities managers and student leaders to generate a powerful, centralized response to campus crime...
Beyond the language program, Gates says the African side of the department needs to see growth elsewhere. He hopes to hire an anthropologist who deals with Africa, as well as African literature and music professors, to bolster the department...