Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classes, but they are allowed to take an unlimited number, and many take several courses while teaching one of their own as well. As part of their $155 tuition each semester, students can also take one free class at the Extension School or the Center for Lifelong Learning, an option which about 25 percent of the students choose...
...could see Yohe's capability and what he started to do," Harvard Coach Joe Restic says. "He became very aggressive that game. He ran the option well. He controlled that game...
Blackman, who describes Harvard's recruitment strategy as "fairly sophisticated," says that the University's efforts to locate and admit minority students are geared toward reassuring potential applicants that academia is a viable career option for minorities. And she says that last year's success is a result of a renewed commitment on the part of administrators to beef up GSAS's numbers...
...minority graduate students, Blackman travels to colleges around the country and holds both group meetings and individual sessions with prospective minority applicants. She says that sending students out on recruiting trips has been effective because they can address their peers' fears about academia as a viable career option...
...many ghetto kids, gaining self-esteem as a basketball player has been one way to escape the snare of drugs. But New York City police say that may no longer be a local option. The reason: drug lords are recruiting promising neighborhood players, offering them such inducements as cash and $80 sneakers to play in sandlot tournaments on which the dealers place big bets...