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...Radcliffe Externship Program, in its 22nd year, allows undergraduate women to live and work with alumnae during their spring break. The program not only gives them a chance to learn about a career, but also about being a career woman. Instead of relaxation, these students get a first-hand try at the demands of a 40-hour work week--with homes and families on the side...
...related to each other, and their answers must all begin with the proposition that we need to know what is wrong and how it can be fixed before we announce our solutions. Harvard is now actively exploring with other universities the feasibility of a pilot program to give us first-hand access to information about actual factory conditions, through the use of experienced monitors and human rights organizations that would report directly to us and advise us on the most effective responses to these conditions. Our goal is to learn enough over the course of a year to arrive...
...Reindl has seen the successful results of ECHO's endeavors first-hand. Many of the students who come to see her at the Bureau of Study Counsel were directed to her by the ECHO staff...
Raised in Trenton, N.J., then a segregated town, Higginbotham pursued a career in law because of his first-hand experience with injustice. The son of a cleaning woman and a laborer, he often told personal stories of his rise through racial injustice in his lectures as lessons of how "voiceless and forgotten people" could overcome obstacles...
...Ideally you want things in student hands but sometimes it ends up being more strategic to do it this way," she says, noting that the committee gives administrators a chance to see student need first-hand...