Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Using this system, one of Bennetts' eight researchers appealed to the Kresge Foundation, headquartered in Troy, Michigan, and won. Barbara J. Getz, program officer at Kresge, says the foundation decided to grant the University $1,250,000 to help fund the second building of the K-School because "Harvard obviously is old and venerable; it will survive the dilemmas of the '80s." The University was one of 208 receipients from a pool of 1359 that met the Kresge Foundation's standards, particularly its insistence on the donee's fiscal stability. In fact, Harvard passed with flying colors; "It will...
...find Afro-Am an either/or proposition--it is a study of Africans in the new world principally, but not exclusively. We're naturally interested in African culture and society. We're interested necessarily in the Caribbean, and perhaps in Latin America for comparative purposes." But, Huggins adds quickly, "No program can take the world as its field. Africa is a very rich field in itself. I do not see us becoming an African studies department...
Undergraduates, Huggins hopes, will again be drawn to the department once this grand design is set in motion. "The program as it is doesn't need radical change--and we can't expect anything dramatic," he says. While he admits as chairman he must look at the number of concentrators, Huggins says he doesn't want to focus on quantity. "It's a qualitative matter--I see it as a way of developing a competence in students, a means of training oneself to do something they could not do otherwise...
...opening rounds of President Carter's draft registration program were quite in your town, you should have been in Boston...
...School, several professors close to the high court, said that, given the Supreme Court's record in sex discrimination cases, it would overturn the Philadelphia decision and proclaim the program constitutional, Others disagreed, however, saying the lower court would be upheld...