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...their transition to college, many reluctantly leave behind low-income immigrant families that had depended on their labor to survive...
...tenure lasting beyond July 1, 2007 would be “really quite exceptional.”Verba says he is inundated with questions about the timeline of the search but has few answers for now.“It’s not going to be done by Labor Day, and I’d be really depressed if it’s not done sometime in the spring or the late spring, because we really need a new president by the end of the academic year,” he says.According to Houghton, the search committee...
...minority faculty and students, and to scrap classroom policies they considered discriminatory. One women’s group even charged that the school’s lackadaisical search for women and minority faculty candidates has violated federal affirmative action hiring codes, a complaint still pending with the Department of Labor. Last week, the school finally began to act. Administrators announced they will include students on the school’s three admissions committees—as a student panel had requested. And they revealed they will soon hire a female associate professor, the highest-level female faculty member...
...Google, for its part, allowed publishers to instruct it which books not to scan at all. While we understand the concerns of the publishers, copyright laws are not meant as a means to keep information protected, but rather as a way to disseminate it justly, keeping in mind the labor of the writers and editors. Furthermore, readers would not be able to access complete works not in the public domain, as only a maximum of 20 percent could be viewed. Thus, Google Print’s contribution to research and academia would far outweigh any concerns regarding copyright infringement...
...Kennedy School allegedly inflated the number of female and black faculty in a report, prompting many alumni and students to rally behind the cause of greater minority representation and demand greater dedication to affirmative action from the school.The final complaint, laid at the door of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) by the national women’s rights group Women’s Equity Action League (WEAL) claimed that the positions of two black female research associates at the KSG had been misrepresented to the DOL, labeling them as “instructional” when in reality they...