Word: fellowships
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...treatment organization is also undergoing something of a mid-life crisis. Though A.A. claims nearly 2 million members worldwide, in the U.S. its growth has come at a cost. Founded in 1935 by New York stockbroker Bill Wilson and Ohio surgeon Bob Smith, A.A. is no longer just a fellowship of down-and-out men whose drinking has led them, in A.A. parlance, to "hit bottom." The veterans are being joined by younger people--and women, gays and minorities--as well as by those who are sent to A.A. as part of a court sentence. The newcomers often bring...
David Sadker will accept the $5,000 award at a banquet this evening in Orlando, Fla., at the American Association of University Women (AAUW) convention. In addition, the organization will establish a $15,000 teaching fellowship in memory of Myra Sadker, who died recently of breast cancer...
With the new fellowship, AAUW hopes to further reduce gender bias in American classrooms by working toward to ideal established by Myra Sadker's work...
...going to Harvard. It all seemed so simple when that thick envelope came in the mail asking you to join the club, become one of us, a member of the fellowship of educated men and women, a student at America's premier university. How could you refuse that certificate with your name in stately calligraphy, your own invitation to a four-year cocktail party with the best and brightest...
...Fellowship is a step in the right direction, if for nothing else than that it shows that Radcliffe is serious about eradicating issues of gender discrimination at Harvard. And as Peggy B. Schmertzler '53, one of the chairs of the alumnae committee, noted last fall in an interview, the "discrimination against women today is extremely subtle and elusive." In other words, women may not still be told to give up writing and have babies, but they may be subtly told not to go out and pursue a Ph.D. in Chemistry--especially if there are no female teaching fellows in Chemistry...