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...Center centralizes the already-existing resources related to women’s issues.“We run a large mentor program, we provide funding for women’s issues events through the [Ann Radcliffe Trust],” says Marine. “Our mission is very different from a student center, yet we’re also to trying to be a comfortable space and I don’t think those goals are in conflict.”FOCUS ON FEMALESMarine stresses that the Center is open to feedback. After hearing concerns about its prominent location...
...have consulted with the Corporation also emphasized that their input could ensure the next president would be able to maintain a collegial relationship with professors.“I think that what faculty look for in the current context is someone who can provide a sense of mission for the University but who has the important quality of being able to develop consensus—working with people to come together rather than, in a sense, challenging them,” Mendelsohn said.And in the hope of finding someone who will work well with them, members of the faculty advisory...
...spiritual retreat, the postulant and her advisers in the community decide whether she will become a novice and study Catholic theology and ministry for up to two years. She may then take her temporary vows. After an additional four to eight years during which she serves the convent's mission, she makes her final vows and becomes a professed...
...Notre Dame in Mankato, Minn., who do not mandate a habit or discourage her from continuing to work as a pharmacist for Target. Schreifels gave up her Subaru Forester and apartment and moved into a house with the sisters, but her work is considered part of the order's mission to serve the community; her salary goes to support the sisterhood. "I am open to whatever God is asking," says Schreifels...
...current Bush Administration did the reverse in 2003 by using realist rhetoric about security interests (remember those WMD?) to cloak what was, more broadly, a neo-Wilsonian mission of spreading democracy. The two primary realists in the Bush court, Colin Powell and Brent Scowcroft, were the most prominent castoffs by the end of the first term. And Condoleezza Rice, for years a sophisticated realist thinker in the mold of her mentor Scowcroft, underwent a post-9/11 conversion to the belief that there was no longer a useful distinction between democracy-crusading idealism and national-security realism...