Word: obtaining
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Conservative courts are beginning to roll back affirmative methods to obtain diversity in higher education resulting in falling minority applications and admissions to schools in California and Texas--the states where the rulings have come down. (Please see accompanying graphics...
...most promising efforts to remake teacher education--a unique collaboration among the University of Cincinnati, the Cincinnati public schools, the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers and the city's business community. Called the Cincinnati Initiative for Teacher Education, or CITE, this five-year program requires participants to obtain a bachelor's degree in humanities or the sciences, then spend a fifth year in the classroom, with pay, under the close guidance of a mentor teacher to earn a teaching diploma. What sets these CITE "interns" apart from traditional student teachers is that for the entire year they are the teachers...
Although the crew will not film on campus, the producers had to obtain permission to film from Harvard's Public Affairs Office as well as its Real Estate Office because the University owns much of the surrounding property...
...most controversial part of its proposal to tighten controls over political parties and protests. But wary Hong Kong residents remain concerned that the move may be more about spin control than true moderation. At issue were two provisions that would require citizens organizing a rally or protest to obtain police permits seven days in advance and give the government the authority to ban political parties if they are a threat to national security. Under the revisions, police can approve a demonstration on short notice "in exceptional circumstances." However, nothing in the bill outlined what those circumstances would be. Hong Kong...
Rather than being organized into departments, WMBR is organized around the tastes of individual DJs. "You may have a department at WMBR because people get together who have common interests," Newman says. "You can obtain your own show outside of a department, whereas at WHRB, if you want a rock show, you join the rock department...