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...corps claims that nine-tenths of its students get jobs. It has kept almost no long-range records on some 850,000 "graduates," however, and the overall placement rate is probably far lower than 90%. Still, the ties that some centers have with business and labor help a good deal in placement. At Clearfield Job Corps Center near Salt Lake City, for instance, 170 of about 1,500 trainees last year completed an advanced automotive training program run in conjunction with the United Auto Workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Survivor of the Budget Cuts | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

Renfrew, an advanced placement Engineering and Applied Sciences concentrator, had been scheduled to graduate this spring, but decided to spend a fourth year at the University and graduate in 1982 with a combined bachelor of arts degree in Engineering and a masters in science...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Ann Renfrew '82 Dies While Hiking In Great Britain | 7/3/1981 | See Source »

...perception of national and world events pervaded its reactions to what was happening on campus. Some of the controversies seem particularly parochial and overblown, in retrospect; it is already becoming difficult to understand or even to remember, for example, the intense ire provoked by new restrictions on the placement of posters or the threat of a shuttle-bus driver strike. The developments in the Core Curriculum, difficult as they may have been to achieve, even now seem all but routine; and most people would be hard-pressed to recall the substance of heated Faculty debates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Academics | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...some of the victories were less than complete. Lost in parliamentary procedure during its December meeting, the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life did not approve the placement of an informational pamphlet on homosexuality in second semester registration packets. It did, however, authorize the introduction of a second packet, which eventually contained the GSA's brochure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minorities | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...Wisconsin mental health institute, was not so fortunate. He lost his job last January after it was discovered that he had taken the name, Social Security number and educational background of a college acquaintance. One job candidate got in trouble because of the bad judgment used by an executive placement firm he hired. A cover letter that accompanied the resume of Dennis C. Revell claimed that he "is a litigator who makes an excellent presentation and is engaged to be married to President Reagan's daughter Maureen." Although the marriage took place as promised last month, the cover letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creative Fiction | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

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