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...many district and state regulations. Skeptical administrators gave Sved and Williams just six months to round up $200,000 in start-up money and find a site for the school. After securing funding at the last moment from Wells Fargo Bank, the two hurriedly went door-to-door to recruit students. In September 1994, Accelerated opened with two teachers--Sved and Williams--and 50 students, shoehorned into a leased church social hall...
...quality of Harvard’s artistic education, Phelan implemented an unorthodox structure for the department. She increased the number of professional artists who served as visiting scholars, encouraged student projects and sought to bring to VES the atmosphere of a world-class art school. Her efforts to recruit faculty, fundraise for lectures and exhibitions, and obtain scarce studio space for students and visiting artists alike have led to the wide recognition of Harvard’s VES department as offering one of the most innovative undergraduate studio art program of liberal arts schools in the country...
Revolution philippine-style is a two-step affair. First, you stop traffic in Manila by drawing a large crowd on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, or EDSA, one of the city's main thoroughfares. Next, you recruit a couple of ambitious generals who can enlist the troops and scramble the jets. That's the way two Philippine Presidents were overthrown: kleptocrat Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 and party-loving, mah-jongg crazy Joseph Estrada last January...
...short-term remedies include bringing in a slew of departmental alternatives to alleviate the current shortage, being more lenient on granting petitions to grant Core credit for departmental courses which fit the basic goals of a Core area, and the appointment of Faculty subcommittee chairs who aggressively recruit their colleagues to teach Core courses...
...national movement afoot now to solve the problems," Brazile says, criticizing President Bush for not including funds for election reform in his recently released budget. "Congress and the Bush Administration should provide matching grants to states to update their systems, as well as grants to train and recruit Election Day workers...