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...size and placement of buildings remain undecided. And the status of "related structures" for the site--apartments in hotel, or luxury stores--appears less and less certain...
...both the schools and their students, an impressive degree is less important than job placement. New York's highly rated RCA Institutes, owned by RCA Corporation, operates three shifts a day training TV and electronics technicians in a former warehouse and places 79% of the graduates. Half of RCA's nontenured faculty lack college degrees, but nearly all have job experience. Such a practical approach attracts students like Angelo Miranda, 24, who briefly considered going to college, then decided, "What I'm really after is money." His bench mate, Robert Sandberg, 19, a dropout from the City...
...Doug's Eliot House friends are the core of the group. I work for Don because Doug and I have a mutual friend.) He knows all of us, yet he's one of the few people who can talk to Don privately. He handles the smallest problems, of people placement, and logistics. He has a distinguishing pad of yellow legal paper...
...Peter, a professor of education at the University of California, provided an answer of admirable simplicity. In The Peter Principle, he stated and demonstrated the thesis that competent people get promoted until they reach a job they can not do, and then they stay there, victims of "the final placement syndrome." Or, as Dr. Peter formally phrased his principle, "in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." Bravo, Dr. Peter...
...area of job placement for recent Ph.D.'s, a year of investigation is about to pay off. Members of GWO and the Equal Employment Opportunity officer of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences compiled closely coinciding sets of recommendations to standardize placement procedures for graduate students. Yet another committee is being appointed by Dean Dunlop to study the recommendations further, but hopefully the model placement procedures will be in effect in time for the 1972-73 year...