Word: placement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the ideal of "self" and toward the ideal of "awareness and contribution" as regards the problems of society, the graduate is looking for a career in which he can commit himself to help solve these problems. Police work will give him that chance. Law-enforcement executives and college placement bureaus should plan programs toward this goal. Perhaps then the two poles of "cop" and "professional" can be reconciled...
...lectured, she carried her word: "I would like to see the day when every blind child has an opportunity of an education and every blind grownup has the chance for training and job placement." The American Foundation for the Blind appointed her counselor on national and international relations, a title that conveyed only a hint of her activities; governments from Washington to Tokyo gave her medals...
While this is not a new problem, the Committee recommends that each department review its practices as they affect this relationship. Teaching responsibilities, committee assignments, research opportunities, space allocations, closer relations with senior colleagues, and measures to assist placement no doubt all affect the atmosphere of a department and its attractiveness to young scholars...
Burk says his unique selection system for boat placement this season has worked "extremely well." Those who will row in the first shell are chosen by a point system based on how many races each oarsman has won during work-outs...
This, however, is not the issue which the Student-Faculty Advisory Council has raised in its latest sessions. The Advisory Council has decided that while it is permissible for the Career office and Department placement officers to invite in most prospective employers, there may be some employers whose activities are so repugnant that they offend the moral sense of a substantial portion of the University, and that to allow them in might in effect be seen as University condonement of what they do. The most obvious examples of such organizations would be Dow Chemical Corporation and the Central Intelligence Agency...