Word: ombudsman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believes that his opposition to so many Administration and congressional reform measures is a part of his job: to be the businessman's hard-lobbying, cheerleading advocate in Washington. But he is not without some plans for reform of his own. In the Commerce Department, Stans started an ombudsman scheme that provides businessmen with an office where they can take complaints about the Government, and he supported the campaign against further U.S. hunting of endangered whale species. (But he recently upheld the "harvesting" of Alaskan seals by means of clubbing...
...that tenured professors keep working productively. At the University of Utah, for example, Law Professor Arvo Van Alstyne is completing a study of tenure that is expected to propose a new code of faculty performance standards, periodic reviews by a faculty committee to check performance, and a top-level ombudsman to hear student complaints of bad teaching. Even if laggard professors could not be fired, they might be required to take refresher courses. Says B.U. President Silber: "One of the most severe penalties you can impose on a faculty member is the intellectual disapprobation of his colleagues...
...been criticized recently for a lack of sensitivity toward women's health needs; some critics have also suggested that UHS appoint an ombudsman...
...reply, Farnsworth said, "We have been as sensitive as we knew how to be. I don't see any need for an ombudsman because of a very high degree of responsiveness. I don't have the slightest objection, though, except we consider each one of us as [ombudsmen...
Helen Nowlis, 57, a University of Rochester counselor and ombudsman, has become increasingly well known as a spokeswoman for those who feel that the nation is underestimating the complexity of the drug problem. As chairman of the U.S. Office of Education advisory panel on drug education, she has spent the past year crisscrossing the country to sell her point of view to state agencies, school systems and colleges. Her philosophy began to take shape twenty years ago, when she participated in one of the first comprehensive studies of the social, emotional and physical results of drugs, and concluded that "there...