Word: selecter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lack of outsiders on the panel had one major advantage: it forced the search committee to spend the first months of its search interviewing dozens of faculty members here on campus and the "nation's best minds" around the country. They met with select students from the College and other schools, and reached into many of Harvard's nooks and crannies for ideas. Committee members interviewed the presidents and other high-level administrators of other Ivy League institutions, faculty members at other schools, researchers, government officials, other captains of industry, just about any "wise mind" the committee could find...
Each spring, the English department chooses a small and promising crop of English concentrators to write creative theses. Over the course of the next year, while most thesis writers are tracking down sources and reformatting bibliographies, these select few struggle to develop original written works in the genres of either poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction or dramatic writing...
William L. Everson `02, who attended the meeting of the AAC last year that planned the petition, says he thinks students haven't been as vocal this year about House Master diversity because of the confidential (some call it secretive) process that the College administration uses to select House Masters...
...late last week, after months of trying to keep Tito grounded, NASA backed off. It really had little choice. The Russians are partners in the space-station project too, which gives them the right to select their own crews. Kicking them out of the partnership was unthinkable. Not only do the others need Russia's Soyuz capsules (for emergency escapes) and expertise in long-duration space flight, they also want to keep Russian rocket scientists and engineers gainfully employed so that they aren't tempted to sell their services to rogue states...
...there remains one issue that mars the otherwise spectacular selections made since 1995: There is an embarrassing lack of diversity among the House Masters, and I am sure that many undergraduates would appreciate a more concerted effort to select masters more representative of the College today than the College of 50 years ago. The face of the undergraduates has certainly morphed in the past few decades, and it is only appropriate that the House Masters reflect this transformation as well. Of course, this issue stems from a much larger one about the racial composition of the Faculty as a whole...