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...employers favor what is known as flexplace, or working by electronic extension from someplace other than the office. Other approaches include the compressed schedule, which packs more work hours into fewer days, and flextime, which lets employees adjust the start and end of their workday to their needs. Eve Elberg, 51, of Brooklyn, N.Y., has been back to work since February 2000 after a year-long hiatus because of cancer. The Web and graphics designer was pleased to find that her new employer, a national bank, was open to the idea of her working a few days a week. "They...
Graduate deans do not contend that all their students should be deferred. "That would be utterly immoral," says Berkeley Graduate Division Dean Sanford S. Elberg. But the universities argue that, whenever possible, students should be called before they enter grad school or after receiving their degrees-and not in academic midstream. Indicating the extent of the schools' concern, the Association of American Universities and the Council of Graduate Schools have petitioned the Defense Department to spell out precisely how many graduate students will be drafted. Professors at many universities are busy writing their Congressmen, friends in the Pentagon...
...four years. Cal pays $2,500 for a half-time teaching load the first year, with small raises later. Thus while an un married TA can survive on his stipend, a married grad must put his wife to work-and even then, says Cal Graduate Dean Sanford Elberg, it takes a "religious dedication to get through...
...Enormous Amherst." Dean Elberg defends the TA system on grounds that "it allows the university to break up large classes into smaller units and then give individual instruction-it begins to humanize the institution." Professor Albritton contends that Harvard cannot increase the teaching load of its top professors without losing "a certain type of person on whom its distinction depends-Harvard would simply become an enormous Amherst...
...from about a fourth of them five years ago. The 1961 rate for Bryn Mawr girls was 58%, and this year it should be even higher. The University of California's Berkeley campus is so overwhelmed that it has yet to gather statistics. Says Graduate Dean Sanford S. Elberg: "We've had 70,000 inquiries about graduate study so far this year...