Word: merit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jorge I. Dominguez, Harvard's senior authority on Latin American political science, was officially punished this summer by Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, after the dean found merit in a grievance the assistant professor lodged...
...policy stipulates that complainants are told whether their case is found to have merit but are not notified what action is taken against the subject of the complaint...
...Johns at the top, closely followed by Christo, whose island-fringing project in Miami's Biscayne Bay-as Japanese as a Monet, blooms of pink on the still water-caused great excitement on the other side of the Pacific. It is possible to find current work of real merit, like the exquisite objects of washi (handmade paper) with tones and twigs embedded in them, by the Kyoto artist Shoichi Ida. Yet the resignation with which artists accept their secondary role is almost as troubling as its opposite, the gross commercial ambitions of the American art world...
...N.E.A., by contrast, has until recently been obdurately opposed even to considering merit pay. Outgoing Executive Director Terry Herndon vowed to fight the master-teacher concept in Tennessee and anywhere else that it is tried. Supporting this determination, some N.E.A. delegates at the convention wore badges that said: TRY MERIT PAY IN THE WHITE HOUSE...
...leadership at the N.E.A. seems to be willing to consider ways of working out a fair merit-pay plan. Mary Hatwood Futrell, the president-elect, has declared that the union is still "tough on merit pay, but not so tough that we're not willing to open discussion." Don Cameron, who succeeds Herndon as executive director, has called on the N.E.A. "to review many longstanding policies." Cameron has also declared, "Let us state that there are some incompetent teachers in America's classrooms." At the convention, the N.E.A. delegates voted to set up a task force, headed...