Word: hires
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First: We quite often forget now the belt-tightening period in 1960, when we had to initiate a no-hire-no-fire policy to cut the fat from municipal operations. We re-organized a number of city departments over the 8 years; we combined the Health and Hospital Departments which has set an example for America, an example which has now been emulated in half a dozen cities; we created the new Public Facilities Department (this I think is one of the most significant reorganizations we have made); and we reorganized the Assessing Department. We made a number of other...
...effort to get the School of Education to hire a Negro professor for its new. Chair in Urban Studies, the Urban League of Greater Boston is circulating a memorandum among Roxbury parent and community groups asking for suggested names of qualified black professionals...
According to Miss Brown, the search for names came in the wake of a Dec. 22 meeting between Sizer and Representatives of the League, at which the League first suggested Sizer hire a black professor to fill the chair...
Sizer's first comment, Miss Brown claimed, was that thet Ed School does not hire on the basis of race. "His next reason," she continued, "was that he can't find any qualified black professors." She added that she felt Sizer "definitely hires on the basis of race...
...serious breach of academic freedom, imposing a substantive restriction on the right of a university to hire anyone it chooses to teach its courses. A general application of Rusk's restriction would bar most of Europe's great philosophers, teachers, and other intellectuals from American universities--an action hardly in the long-range national interest...