Word: priore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...percent of all tenured appointments in the last five years have been to women and in all hiring processes, departments are told to enlarge the applicant pool in ways that make women feel particularly encouraged to apply, and to document these efforts. However, the University has not done enough prior to the tenuring process. For example, Associate Dean of Affirmative Action Marjorie Garber reviews cases only after the fact. In addition, the average annual rate of change during the Rudenstine-Knowles Administration has only been 0.4 percent. This must change if any of us is to actually be alive when...
...once we enter the "real world" the burden of social justice descends and without prior experience we are liable to either crumble under its weight or refuse it outright. Beware students: beware Icarus, the boy who thought he could soar to the high heavens on flimsy wings...
Absolutely. Rudenstine has outlined the essential pieces of effecting meaningful change, but surprisingly few of these steps have been taken. For example, while the Associate Dean of Affirmative Action "reviews follow-up reports on the outcomes of each search," department heads have to do more prior to each search. Another example is that while a new endowment has been given to promote women's issues, a day-care center at the Law School is about to close. As Schmertzler said, "Harvard has proposed solutions to this problem; they just haven't done them.... Words are cheap...
...year law school exams usually include one or two fact-patterns, scenarios from which students are expected to extract and discuss relevant legal issues, and a policy question. Of course, exams differ by professor, so the best way for students to prepare themselves is to study that professor's prior exams...
Sheppard-Sawyer admits that although she had been running pretty regularly, she actually spent the week prior to the race in the Caribbean...