Word: cataloger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being aggressively recruited by other schools; one suitor is offering a 100% raise in pay.) To sweeten the pot, universities reduced the amount of time professors were required to spend performing such loathsome tasks as teaching undergraduates, serving as advisers and managing administrative operations. Courses proliferated: the course catalog for my senior year was 271 pages; today it's 375 pages. Yet the number of full-time arts-and-sciences faculty members remained stable. Graduate students and adjunct faculty increasingly shouldered the load, while professional counselors and administrators and their retinues of support staff took over tasks once within...
...tidy as Clinton was sloppy, Lott dressed as crisply as a Sears-catalog model, showed up on time with his homework done and protested nothing. Neither the civil rights movement nor the Vietnam War made much of an impression on him. "I and my classmates came up in more of a positive, upbeat, 1950s kind of great time," says Lott. "We didn't think about national issues...
...registration means...students providing an intention of what choice to make before the courses get underway," Fox says. "[Students] would need access to a course catalog, a CUE guide, published syllabi and adequate advising...
Therefore the registrar needs at least seven weeks to turn around a catalog, meaning that under a system of pre-registration, departments would have to submit course descriptions nearly two months sooner than under the present system, which would entail a major change, says a staff member in the Registrar's office...
...whose greatest works were created for demanding clients, and about half of the works in this collection are commissioned pieces. Strangely, the difference between professional and artistic photographs is not detectable. There is as much power and mystery in the photographs which adorned the pages of a Neiman Marcus catalog as in those made as artworks. In fact, according to Smith, it's in commissioned pieces that one can assess a photographer's competence and skill. Only a truly skilled artist will be able to work with the limitations imposed by a client and still produce an image full...