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...when Harvard graduate students could automatically count on getting jobs at the top-prestige universities are over," says Theda Skocpol, assistant professor of Sociology and director of placement for the department. "But," she adds, "there still are university jobs and good college jobs available to just about everybody...
Although the degree of optimism varies from department to department, most department chairmen and placement directors term the situation gloomy but not hopeless. "Our graduates seem to be continuing to get positions," says Paul C. Martin, former chairman of the Physics Department, one of the most affected among the sciences. "But typically the choices of academic positions available include some that are less desirable than corresponding students would have ended up with in Sputnik times." And although statistics compiled by Donna G. Martyn, director of placement for the GSAS, indicate that as of November 1974 over a quarter...
...every Baxter, however, there is someone like sociologist Quee-Young Kim, who despite the frustrations of the job market is firmly committed to making it in the academic world. Both Kim and placement director Skocpol lay much of the blame for Kim's initial problems in finding a job on his being a foreigner. Although Kim was one of the department's top-recommended students, Skocpol says, when the job market begins to tighten, Americans tend to hire Americans." Kim finally landed a last-minute appointment at Simmons, but he is, like Hesford, a victim of what McKinney calls...
...Advising on Science Courses and Placement. A must for pre-meds, this meeting is one of several that are guaranteed to psycheout the unwary. Don't be misled by fellow students urging you to take what sounds like difficult chemistry courses. After you sign up, they'll drop out and coast through Natural Science chem...
...first time, freshmen were not given the chance to request to live at Radcliffe or at the Yard. This made the job a little easier. Now all Radcliffe applications as well as all males that requested singles and doubles, are sent to the associate Radcliffe dean's office for placement in 280 freshmen spaces at the Radcliffe Quadrangle. After all those spaces are filled, the remaining names revert to the freshman dean's pool for placement in the Yard...