Word: researching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explosive growth that has added faculty and research centers in areas as diverse as poverty, the press and the environment--and executive programs which train everyone from new mayors to national security officers--critics have charged that the expansion has left the school too broad and unfocused. Observers of the school say that the next dean will usher in a long-needed period of consolidation during which the school will have to internalize and digest the hasty growth of the Allison years...
Under his aggressive leadership, the school's endowment grew from $20 million to over $150 million, the faculty more than tripled, and the number of degree candidates at the school increased from 200 to 800. Ten new research centers were established, and the school celebrated the ground-breaking of its third building...
Most important for the intellectual health of the University, the attitude toward the inclusion of African-American faculty as a legitimizing factor for the Black person and the Black intellectual tradition (not to mention the research which suggests their critical role in the matriculation of Black students) may be a bellweather of openness to other trends...
Dowling said Leverett House already has two volunteers among its tutors for next year. One of them, Sheryl Dorsey, has spent time studying issues of race relations and worked at the National Research Council on a study of the role of Blacks in twentieth century America, Dowling said...
...advisors of the winning students also receive grants of $500 for research and study, Lessels said...