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...community as assistant professors in the fall. “I am thrilled to welcome these talented young scholars to the faculty,” Kagan said in the statement. Expanding the size of the faculty has been a key priority for Kagan, who has tried to poach tenured professors at other universities like Cass R. Sunstein ’75 and Mark V. Tushnet ’67. I. GLENN COHEN Cohen, a specialist in bioethics, was an academic fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at the Law School this year. He publishes...
...them have gone to athletes, according to Fitzsimmons. But he adds that the admissions office is still planning on sending out a substantial number of non-athletic likelies before March 31. Fitzsimmons calls it an “unprecedented year” with many other colleges trying to poach students who could be lured away without an early Harvard admission.Yale, for one, saw applicants to its early pool rise by 36 percent, following both Harvard’s and Princeton’s decisions to end early admissions.The strategy is targeted to athletes in particular because they often face intense...
...conventional wisdom has long been that you put the animals in a well-run reserve and safeguard it like it were a prison, keeping the wildlife separate from the people who actually live there. The locals, in this case, are the threat because they're the ones who poach endangered wildlife, whether for the ivory or skin trade, or just for meat. But, so far, this conventional wisdom hasn't led to much progress. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's annual report, nearly 40% of surveyed species are currently threatened, and their numbers are growing...
COMACO counters the economic pull of poaching with a safer, more consistent alternative: organic farming. Villagers who sign up for COMACO receive training in sustainable agriculture - such as organic bee-keeping techniques - and band together to form farming co-ops. COMACO agrees to buy their produce at a higher-than-normal price, and the organization markets the products to Zambian stores, under the brand name "It's Wild!" If villagers agree to join COMACO, they aren't allowed to poach, and they pledge to protect the land, eschewing slash-and-burn farming techniques. COMACO checks up on its members - villages...
...million RNs by 2020. Yet American nursing programs turned away nearly 150,000 qualified applicants for all degree levels last year--including 38,415 from bachelor's programs--according to the National League for Nursing (NLN). The profession is trapped in a catch-22: hospitals, desperate for staff, poach nurses from one another with bonuses and perks. Nursing colleges can't fill the gap with new graduates because the schools can't compete in this overheated marketplace for the experienced nurses they need as teachers. "Clinical salaries are so high that nurses don't want to leave for academia," says...