Word: hires
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coalition has proposed that minority student representatives review minority student representatives review minority applicants' admissions files. The coalition has also proposed that the Law School hire at least two minority visiting professors and then consider them for tenured positions...
...clearly trying to buy its way to a top academic rating. This semester it lured Nobel Physicist Steven Weinberg down South. He left behind a prestigious, endowed chair at Harvard in exchange for a Texas-size salary (reportedly more than $100,000) and a commitment from U.T. officials to hire other top specialists in elementary-particle theory. Says Weinberg, 48: "I'm trying to build up a group of theoretical physicists, and I'm being given the resources to do it." At U.T. he joined Physicist John Wheeler, 70, the distinguished nuclear-fission expert who came to Austin...
...often difficult to hire established experimental physicists, who may be reluctant to leave their accustomed laboratories and sources of support, Harvard physicists noted. "Harvard is a great university but in terms of physics facilities, there's nothing we have that other universities wouldn't have," said Karl Strauch, who chaired the department last fall when Silvera's appointment was made...
...sent by her enraged father made headlines. But H.S.T. was not always as impulsive as his public tongue-lashings suggested. Another review by Critic Hume annoyed the President, and he complained in writing to Post Publisher Philip Graham: "Why don't you fire this frustrated old fart and hire a music reviewer who knows what he's talking about?" This time, though, the letter went unsent...
Aside from its recruitment proposals, the coalition's plan asked that the Law School allow minority students to review minority applicants admissions files and hire at least two minority visiting professors each year who would later be considered for tenured positions on the Faculty...