Word: k
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result of this growth, many K-School students find that the types of projects that initially attracted them to government jobs are now being done in the non-profit sector...
...K-School administrators say the trend is part of a broader national phenomenon. As the federal government has cut back on human services, non-profit firms have been forced to take up the slack, pushing K-School professors to re-evaluate their goals...
...number of non-profit organizations is just mind-boggling and it has been a question of identifying those institutions and the good placements," says Judy F. Kugel, the K-School's director of career services...
...federal government is just doing much less in the area of human services," says Olivia A. Golden '76, a former Massachusetts official who came to the K-School as a lecturer after mounting an unsuccessful campaign for the state senate...
Kugel says that many students who initially plan careers in government are lured into outside fields by the promise of higher wages. While some students come to the K-School with the perception that the non-profit sector can barely afford to pay them, Kugel says, they often find upon graduating that such jobs can be highly profitable...