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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...School officials created a position of part-time minority recruiter at the beginning of the 1981-82 academic year and hired Thomas P. Sellers to fill the post. Earlier this year, Sellers was promoted to associate director of the Master of Public Administration (MPA) program, and Ben Gonzales, a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Education was recently hired to replace...
...whole shift in the type of jobs. That is why we can have a 10.4% unemployment rate,*and yet every Sunday have scores of pages in our metropolitan papers of help-wanted ads. What we need is a structural change in teaching and instructing, in training people to fill [these jobs]. I won't say that the jobs are entirely new, but let's say the number of them has increased. Three million of our unemployed in the past two years are not people who have lost their jobs at all. They are newcomers to the work force...
Some states are moving to fill the void. Massachusetts, for example, last year set up the Bay State Skills Corp. and endowed it with $8 million to establish training programs. Already 3,400 people are learning such skills as computer programming and electromechanical drafting to qualify for jobs with 185 companies, including Honeywell and General Ship & Engine Works...
Under the new system, Yale students in courses taught by junior faculty members fill out forms specifically evaluating their instructors as teachers. These appraisals become part of a file to be consulted when the junior faculty members comes up for tenure. One of some 40 recommendations spawned a year ago by a faculty review of tendering, this procedure has not created much excitement among Yalies. Many rightly view it as a "baby step"--for the student evaluations could be totally ignored behind closed departmental doors. Nevertheless, the mere act of formalizing such a process has considerable value...
Diving is perhaps Harvard's strongest area. After the Crimson lost high-scoring Pam Stone to graduation, two capable freshmen--Shannon Byrd and Sharon Daly--have helped to fill the void Highly acclaimed sophomore Jennifer Goldberg, senior Adriana Holy, junior Cathy Josman and sophomore Missy Karas all contribute to give Harvard great stability. After three meets and six diving events, five different women have placed first for the Crimson...