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NEA Affiliates in Action
Campaign organizers argue that 81 percent of the CREF Social Choice Account
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Learning alongside students of different racial and ethnic backgrounds significantly enhances the educational experiences of law students, according to a recent survey released by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. Results from the survey show that white students, in particular, are enriched through interactions with other races and ethnic groups. Interaction between law students of diverse backgrounds cause many students to alter their values and views about civil rights, the criminal justice system, and affirmative action policies. The report, Diversity and Legal Education: Student Experiences in Leading Law Schools, is available at: www.law.harvard.edu/groups/civilrights/ publications/lawsurvey.html. France's Minister of Education, speaking before the opening of the World Trade Organization in Seattle, said that U.S. universities attempting to set up branches across Europe "would lead to a standardized world, 'one teaching, one thinking'." The French leader criticized the growing number of U.S. institutions setting up shop in Europe and predicted a battle over the right to offer distance-learning programs across national borders. He also warned against "the privatization of education" and called on Europe to preserve free, state-run higher education.
The board concluded that the residents are employees because they work for an employer, receive employment benefits, and spend up to 80 per cent of their time caring for patients. The decision overturns a 1976 Supreme Court decision that called medical residents students and denied them NLRB protections. In a related case, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that a 1995 grade strike by graduate teaching assistants at Yale University was not protected labor activity. But the three-member panel that issued the decision did not rule on the central issue of the case: Are T.A.s employees? Yale and the graduate student union must now argue the case further before an NLRB judge.
The guidelines, meant to carry out the Vatican's vision for higher education in the United States, were adopted by the bishops over strong opposition from Catholic college and university leaders, who felt the guidelines restrict academic freedom, open colleges to lawsuits, and diminish the importance of people of other faiths on their campuses. The number of tenure-track jobs available in English in 1999 rose for the second year in a row, according to the Modern Language Association's Job Information List. Openings for tenure-track assistant professors leaped from 459 in 1998 to 518 in 1999. Since 1997, the number of entry-level tenure-track jobs has shot up by 40 per cent. Nonetheless, there were 243 applicants for one recent British-literature position. Trends in Campus Computing Between 1994 and 1999
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