Word: hires
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...richness and diversity of people and life-styles," Feinstein takes particular delight in the fact that San Francisco is one of only four major U.S. cities operating in the black. Last week she was able to announce a 10.4% increase in the city budget, allowing her to hire 91 badly needed policemen and 33 bus and streetcar workers. Still, the increase is the smallest in three years...
...meets regularly with all departments that underutilize women or minorities, particularly "to make sure searches are properly conducted"--noting for example whether departments advertise vacancies sufficiently. He denies the contention of one professor that he threatened that professor's underutilizing department by warning that if the department did not hire a women in its next appointment, he could not approve any alternative selection. "I would never say to a department that you can only appoint a person of a separate sex or color. That is not what is meant by affirmative action...
...that most departments will recognize the Skocpol case as an aberration, explaining that "I don't think that the department [Fine Arts] could be foolish enough to come to a formal vote as Sociology did" in failing to promote Skocpol. In response to Rosovsky's advice that the departments hire more women and to the recently-implemented minority and women faculty study, though. Grabar says Fine Arts will now stress finding strong female candidates more than identifying needy subfields in the department and then trying to find individuals to fill them. However, he cautions. "The subfields in art history...
Nonetheless, most agree the University has improved its affirmative action status in the last several vears--in particular, hiring increasing numbers of tenured women and tightening up the tenure process to make it better able to locate and then hire qualified women and minorities. Probable demographic forces--like the maturing of age groups containing qualified women--will further serve to increase Harvard's population of tenured women...
...have hundreds of people each hiring one somebody or two somebodies. Many of them are somewhat myopic--they're only concerned with what's happening in their own area." Randolph says, adding, "under such circumstances it's difficult to make people consciously aware of the fact that it's their responsibility to hire minorities...