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...university prepares once more to solicit nominations for the poetry professorship, some potential contenders may be deterred by the scrutiny the contest is likely to attract. Sexual politics look certain to play as key a role in the new election as in the last. "I wish the next Professor of Poetry the very best," said Padel, concluding her press appearance at Hay. "And I hope she's a woman...
Nasca is in the difficult position of helping set the rules for accredited residency programs in the U.S. ACGME held a conference in March to solicit the input of medical professionals and educators from around the globe, and in June it will host an event in Chicago in which 55 groups will present position papers on the subject. After that, an ACGME task force will meet every six weeks until the details of a new plan can be hammered...
...trouble with the idea is that Twitter users may not see the service as a commercial enterprise that should be used to bombard them with advertising. Users of MySpace and Facebook have already staged revolts against the services being used to solicit them to buy products and services. People who use Twitter to communicate with friends may feel the same way. If the service becomes a place where conversations among users are interrupted by marketing messages, Twitter could actually begin to lose users. (Read: "Your Facebook Relationship Status: It's Complicated...
...Crimson on which Flores and UC Vice President Kia McLeod ’10 were copied, Smith pointed to the town hall meetings, a web portal detailing the planned cuts, and group discussions administrators have held with students as examples of the administration’s effort to solicit student opinion.“All of this seems to me to be very much in the spirit of the ‘open dialog’ the students say they are seeking,” he wrote. Smith also wrote that students are involved in the working groups that have...
...Harvard is full of brilliant minds and creative thinkers. While it would have been preferable for the administration to ask for student feedback before these announced changes, it is still worthwhile to solicit solutions or compromises that will keep students safe within budgetary restrictions. Despite the outcry on campus through private and public e-mails from students, parents, faculty, and alumni, as yet, a week after the announced cuts, we have received no sign that the administration is listening. MIT is leading a similar budget-cut initiative and is trying to incorporate community feedback, even streamlining the process of recognizing...