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...stop-gap response to the dearth of women and minority faculty members here, for example, Harvard can establish a program that offers minority and women scholars visiting one- or two-year research and teaching positions. Although everyone agrees that this is not a permanent solution to the problem, it would certainly be a positive step...
Tilson said that although no overall shortage of teachers exists in the U.S. today, there is a dearth of qualified teachers in the inner cities and rural areas. Teachers qualified in math, science and foreign language are especially needed, he said...
Keating, the Phoenix businessman who is accused of using Lincoln as a private casino, is emblematic of the nation's $300 billion-plus S & L disaster. But he has no dearth of accomplices. There are the so-called Keating Five -- Senators Dennis DeConcini and John McCain of Arizona, John Glenn of Ohio, Donald Riegle of Michigan and Alan Cranston of California -- who received $1.3 million in contributions from Keating and went to bat for him against federal regulators. The five sank deeper into trouble last week when the Senate ethics committee appointed outside counsel to investigate. The FBI also expanded...
AILSA, which is sponsoring the symposium withits national organization and the American IndianBar Association, participated in ralliesprotesting the dearth of minority professors atthe Law School last spring. Last year the schooloffered its first course on Native American Law, ashift probably influenced by AILSA efforts, saidthird-year student Loretta A. Miraglia. The classwill be repeated next term, she said...
...strategy which has led some to question whether anything is being done under the Spence administration. But the dean argues that he entered office in 1984 with a dearth of information about the Faculty's financial standing and how it operates. The curriculum review is just one of his efforts to educate himself about his job, administrators...