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This book, described by a 15-year clerical employee, in 1997 set forth criteria which the medical school FMO needed to meet. A year later, she said, these criteria had been almost entirely...
Michigan's current point-based system was instituted to replace its previous two-tiered grid system, which was struck down by the courts in 1998. Rather than admit minority students under criteria separate from the one used for non-minorities--effectively reserving seats for minority applicants--a point-based system acknowledges that race is one of a number of factors to be considered in admissions decisions...
...addition, specific criteria should be established for the evaluation of junior faculty members to tenure positions. This would force the ad hoc committee to justify its decisions based on objective standards. Currently, a new professor must be the "leading scholar/teacher in the field," a superlatively vague requirement that allows an ad hoc committee to make any decision it wants for any reason it wants--without requiring that its reasons ever be revealed...
...four WCHA losses will make it incredibly difficult for Harvard to overtake either of the two Minnesota programs using the above criteria...
...American Correctional Association, which oversee standards in prisons. In addition to the private prisons, the INS also subcontracts to local counties and municipalities, many of which, especially in some southern states, maintain low standards. Part of the problem with relying on ACA requirements, critics argue, is that while such criteria might create a situation many would find suitable for, say, convicted murderers in a high-security facility, it is much harder to justify similar conditions for aliens awaiting an immigration hearing...