Word: supportiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Harvard helps to sustain the South African government and its apartheid system by investing in corporations active in that country. A demonstration of more that 1000 students on the Pusey steps, their march to Holyoke center, and confrontation with President Bok on April 24, 1978 started widespread student support for the demands of the student groups...
...SASC will continue to support what one member terms the "strengthening" of the Afro-American Studies Department--the appointment of more tenured faculty to the department. But it remains to be seen whether the student body will sympathize with the SASC's espousal of University issues unrelated to South Africa. During last spring's boycott, students expressed doubts over the link between divestiture and the future of the Afro-American Studies Department...
Boston School Committee President David Finnegan grouped White and Timility together, saying they both support vacancy decontrol, a policy that is driving rents up in the city...
...School, where grants make up almost half the operating budget, Wickenden says the support staff's annual turnover rate is between 25 and 40 per cent. But almost 70 per cent of the people leaving do so because they want to return to school, often to the Ed School itself. "A lot of employees are marking time between undergraduate and graduate schools," she says. "The higher turnover in support staff is frequently due to our hiring people taking their first or second jobs. They don't plan to stay in them...
...heavily dependent on research funds generally have higher turnover rates because jobs connected with a project end when the grants run out. Wickenden points out that many of these staff members had planned to work at Harvard for only the period of their grants, but she adds that if support staff members who have lost their funding still want to work within the University, she helps find jobs for them...