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...meeting on May 3 with VES director of administration Susan H. Foster, Assistant Dean for Human Resources Laura Ervin, and Garber, a University source and one faculty member said Killip read excerpts from a personal diary of staff attendence and assailed Foster’s administration. Killip would not comment on the meeting, but said that “since [Phelan’s removal], I’ve kept a record. [I’ve done] timekeeping...
...According to VES Events and Publications Coordinator Melissa W. Davenport, the new staff expressed their concerns about the work environment at length to Foster, hired last summer, who relayed the concerns to Phelan...
...Foster says she told Personnel that she planned to quit if the department’s atmosphere did not improve, and according to Wells, Davenport, Lawrence, Wells and manager of finances Laurie Snow met with Ervin and Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs Elizabeth Doherty at the Sumner Road office of FAS Personnel in January to voice their complaints...
...Census Bureau began tracking domestic situations that differ from the traditional two-parent household. Siblings raising siblings account for approximately 140,000 of those cases. Sondra Jackson, the Interim Receiver of the Child and Family Services Agency in Washington, explains, "In the 1980s, we lost about 50,000 foster-care homes nationwide. So we began to look at relatives as potential caretakers." The idealized version of a sibling-run household was promoted by the 1990s television drama Party of Five, which chronicled the Salinger family after their parents died in a car accident. But real-life siblings who have weathered...
...restricting. "The ages from 18 to 25 are really a time of life when you're exploring," says Kramer. "If the older siblings are taking care of the younger ones, they've lost that opportunity to be free." But, Janice insists, "I didn't want my sister in foster care. I was grateful that I was old enough to take care...