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While there were a number of things in the story (News, Nov. 9) about the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) with which I could take exception, one point in particular deserves comment. The statement that "HIID employs virtually no professors from the teaching ranks of the Faculty" conveys the impression that the Institute is essentially disconnected from the rest of the University...
Cheryl Fields, the executive editor of Blacks in Higher Education, says that a study by her publication a year and a half ago revealed that there are about 140 black college presidents in the nation. That number includes junior colleges. Of the 140, 116 work at historically black institutions, and the majority...
...What we do want is an increasing number of women and minorities on the faculties," he says. "We are very conscious of looking at that...
...knowing where a garment comes from is by using an "RN" tracking number given by the Federal Trade Commission, according to Thomas J. Wheatley, a spokesperson for the National Labor Committee, a non-profit working in support of human and worker rights, primarily in Central America...
...This number is supposed to reveal the place of manufacture, he says, but many companies use their RN number to indicate some address in the U.S. where the goods pass through...