Word: hires
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smoking room; then when I had a little more money in hand I would found a dormitory; then after that, or more probably with it, a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had money over that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books." Thus, in the '20s, did Humorist Stephen Leacock define a university, and it may be a blessing that he is not alive to see how bustle has replaced his leisurely academe in Canadian higher education...
...creative and original use of power for the undergraduate is in one sense the most radical change at Santa Cruz. To solve the perpetual problems of liberal education, colleges, about twice as large as the Houses, will be created within the university with the power to hire their own faculty, shape and teach their own curriculum. Departmental strength will be seriously circumscribed and the colleges will become the center of political strength within the broader university culture. At Harvard, the college has been losing a defensive war for two decades; at Santa Cruz, the colleges will have necessary prominence...
...Islam's best-known university, Al Azhar in Cairo. In West Africa, Moslem grammar schools do little more than teach children enough Arabic to read the Koran; when one group of Moslem women in Nigeria last year set up a Western-style secondary school, they had to hire as teachers two Christians...
...committee is still playing around with a lot of ideas it would like to incorporate in future programs. One major theme, for example, is "community participation"--as much as possible. To make this verbal pledge reality, committee members would like to include more local residents on specific subcommittees and hire local people as aides in some of the poverty programs. (This would have the additional effect of transferring more income to those who need...
Cabot will retire from his post in June, and will be succeeded by George F. Bennett '33, deputy treasurer of Harvard College. When Cabot began his tenure 17 years ago, he convinced the Harvard Corporation to hire an investment management firm to supervise the University's investments...