Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Botstein took advantage of the depressed job market to recruit a new faculty willing to work for comparatively low pay (average salary: $10,960) and without tenure. Despite the poverty of most colleges (see following story), he raised enough money through cost cutting to pay the overdue bills. With $800,000 in federal grants, he built three small dormitories, a student union, an auditorium and a new library. As the college's reputation improved, applications increased; enrollment rose to 425, even though Franconia's tuition and other fees amount to $4,200 annually. By opening the library, concerts...
...girls and their customers are not the only ones involved in Kohls' scheme. There are also the 300 investors from Germany (and from five other European countries) who have so far put $9.2 million into the Annabella venture for a guaranteed annual return of 9%. To recruit additional investors. Kohls distributes a prospectus decorated with red hearts and inscribed: "The oldest profession in the world is also the solidest." Among those who agree: a middle-aged Munich vegetable vendor who sold her stand and put the proceeds into Kohls' centers with the explanation that "I worked hard...
...American society, are sex-related-such as high school athletic achievement or holding certain school offices. Harvard could take equal proportions of the men and women who apply, and shift its geographical distribution to concentrate on regions where male applicants predominate. Even if financial offices merged, Harvard might not recruit men and women with equal energy. Indeed, there would be incentives to recruit fewer women, since recruiting would increase the number not only of women applicants, but of lower-income applicants in need of financial...
Hillgarth said that the GSAS made efforts to recruit more black applicants by sending Harvard students to speak with students at various colleges in the country...
...blind" admissions policy provides a good example of such confusion. Yale says it will admit applicants without considering their sex; the result might be 70 per cent women in one class and 25 per cent in the next. The chances are, though, that unless conscious efforts are made to recruit female applicants, the current male-to-female ratio of about 2:1 will hold...