Word: types
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Another type of "hidden discrimination" is present in promotion practices. A middle-level black woman employee says, "Promotion is basically centered not around what you know but who you know." There is more than a tinge of anger and frustration in her voice. A college degree she explains, invariably takes precedence to experience. In the student term bill department, for example, there are no women supervisors. The supervisor is Dartmouth-educated J.P. Mensel--a young, white male. Mensel spent a year working in the hotel business before he came to Harvard. Robert Scott, director of the Office for Financial Assistance...
...major problem with the Core is the attempt by its authors to delineate carefully the structure and content of courses to be designated as "Core courses," which will gradually phase out Gen Ed courses over the next four academic years. Whether Faculty members will be willing to teach the types of courses outlined in the report is not clear; the Core may well set up the type of large lecture courses that no one likes to teach and no one wants to take...
Harvard would also probably prefer some type of legislation rather than enactment of Section 361. But the University has shown it will not accept legislation without strong federal override provisions. Michael F. Brewer, director of the government section of the Office of Government and Community Affairs, explained Harvard believes uniform national standards are necessary to protect researchers from excessive red tape caused by overlapping state and federal regulations. Such regulations would allow them to conduct research in any university they want, so they would not have to choose their university based on local regulations. Brewer also said the overlapping enforcement...
...other schools' programs, nor be copied. "We seriously doubted whether many schools have resources to staff and implement a plan like this," he says. Similarly, what sitinguishes the Core from other undergraduate curricula, which might possess similar structural categories, is the detailed set of guidelines that spell out the type and variety of courses in each of the Core areas...
...only minority administrator, so he acted as advocate for minority students," Michele D. Holmes '77, a first year medical student, said last night. "He is the type of person who stood between you and the bureaucracy. Unless they can find someone like him, his presence will really be missed," she added...