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...course we have additional questions, like about the value of taking courses with senior Faculty over their junior compatriots, and about the ability of the Core Program to recruit additional courses given the regulatory burdens it imposes, and about the supposed substantive nature of Core courses, and about the viability of a ways-of-thinking criterion for the Core in the face of intra-field multiplications of approach, and about the intellectual rationale for adding a Quantitative Reasoning Core subfield but allowing students to opt out of an additional one of their choosing, and about the willingness of the Core...
...anyone has been able to determine, the Heaven's Gate cult used the Net mainly to memorialize itself, or to generate freelance income by producing commercial web pages for local firms. But a growing number of other cults and splinter groups use the Net to try to recruit new members, just as advertisers use the Net to sell products to consumers. Unlike TV or radio, the Net offers a very personal way to contact the audience. Some people are particularly vulnerable to email and chatroom conversations with folks they may meet in the intimate setting of the computer screen...
Penn was in a bind. It was running at a deficit, but to avoid losing its place in the Ivies, it had to spend heavily to recruit and keep the best faculty and meet the growing demand by students for more course choices, more diversity, more access to professors and--one of the most salient trends of the post-'60s student body--more amenities, including comfy dorms, indoor tennis courts and pools. Meyerson had been acting chancellor at Berkeley during the height of student unrest. At Penn, he says, "the worst sit-in I experienced was when we tried...
During his tenure as academic dean, Ellwood helped recruit several star faculty members to the Kennedy School's Wiener Center for Social Policy, including William Julius Wilson, Katherine S. Newman and Christopher S. Jencks '58, a Crimson editor...
Private firms recruit more aggressively than public interest employers who often cannot afford to visit campuses, according to Shabecoff. Public interest employers are also often unable to hire in advance, she added...