Word: scholarships
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...Affirmative Action Plan, the University pledged to remain "firmly committed to attain[ing] racial and gender diversity, believing that a diverse faculty is essential to excellent scholarship and teaching." In a letter dated Feb. 11, 1997, Rudenstine wrote to Schmertzler: "There is nothing I regard as more important to Harvard's future excellence than sustaining and enhancing the quality of appointments to the tenured faculty, and achieving that objective will depend in considerable degree on our success in appointing greater numbers of outstanding women scholars and teachers to tenured positions across the university...
Harvard has always been known for being of unparalleled quality in scholarship. Some have worried that it will be in danger of losing this reputation if it takes affirmative and forceful steps to increase the rate at which it tenures women. This danger will surface only if it fails...
...class resentments that animated Labour leaders before him. Yet he has known heartbreak and hardship. When Tony was only 11, his father, a law professor, suffered a serious stroke just as he was about to run for Parliament as a Conservative. With his father disabled, Blair received scholarship help to attend a tony prep school in Scotland. He did well enough there to pass the tough exams for Oxford in 1972, where he showed little interest in politics. He studied law, but is remembered most for his gyrating performances as bass guitarist and lead singer in a rock band called...
Chan, who worked in a department of cancer epidemiology overseas on a Fulbright Scholarship, says she feels that her year overseas allowed her to "gain a better perspective" of the field of public health...
...Shine, which is a true story, when the aged prodigy, whose name is David Helfgott, visits his late father's grave site. David says he feels nothing, and rightly so. His father was a royal bastard, forcing him to remain in his native Australia after being offered a scholarship to study in America and attempting the same strategy upon his acceptance at the Royal Academy in London...