Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there was some encouraging news from last week's announcement. For one, Clark is very well-liked by his students. Known for making up songs about corporate law in his lectures, Clark is described by his students as caring and deeply interested in education. For once, it seems, Bok chose an administrator who was as much a teacher as a scholar...
...vision of the company's artistic leader? Ball, who regarded the ouster of an artist by a board of directors as a kind of theft, stipulated when A.C.T. came to San Francisco that the local board must serve only as fund raisers, with scant say over what plays he chose, what actors he cast, or how he ran things. By the late 1970s, predictably, board members demanded more power. Ball refused, and ultimately they quit...
Administrators at some pilot schools admit that the lure of free equipment influenced their decisions to air the program. But other officials insist that they chose Channel One primarily on its merits. "Some people assume we're mindless dolts and victims of rampant commercialism," says Thomas Sharkey, principal of Billerica Memorial High School in Billerica, Mass. "I consider this the best form of corporate-school partnership." David Bennett, superintendent of the St. Paul school district, cites lack of public funds as ; a key reason why schools would accept the offer...
...Choosing deans is not a matter of choosing sides," Bok said. "I would not pick a dean without having made the strongest possible effort to convice myself that the dean I chose is determined to be the dean of all the faculty...
...alone makes deanship appointments--also said he chose the candidate who he thought would best pursue academic excellence. Only two weeks ago, Bok had said appointing so-called "consensus candidates" might not be the best choice for that objective...