Word: citizenship
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Senior faculty members agree with Peterson's assessment of the tenure system, but many add that the current system is designed to maintain high academic standards and should not be changed to accomodate what many call the "good citizenship" activities of junior faculty...
...There's always a friction" between faculty, Huchra said, deriving from the perceived "second-class" citizenship of the Smithsonian staff. Other tensions appear when the center attempts to set long-range goals. Professor of Astronomy Margaret J. Geller says that Harvard has been "dragging its feet" on a proposed $20 million telescope to be built in the Southern Hemisphere. The University apparently prefers to rely for now on the Smithsonian facilities...
Afew months ago, Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and Rep. Dave McCurdy (D-Ok.) introduced a bill that would establish a national program of voluntary service. The Citizenship and National Service Act of 1989, if enacted, would mobilize the nation's youth to help meet important national military and civilian needs, while at the same time promoting upward mobility through expansion of federal support for higher education, job training or housing for the program's volunteers...
IMPORTANT as the ROTC predicament is, though, it looks like so much fluff when you hear about the proposed Citizenship and National Service Act, introduced in Congress by Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and Rep. Dave McCurdy (D-Ok.) in January...
Surely Jordan, Egypt and Syria, which have severely restricted the rights of their Palestinian residents since 1948, would not be more tolerant neighbors than Israel, which offers citizenship to the Palestinians within Israel proper...