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They're talking on campus.... . . about a method for evaluating college applicants that would take into account a student's family socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity, the quality of the student's high school, the student's high school GPA, and the academic rigor of the student's core curriculum. The Educational Testing Service, which produces the Scholastic Assessment Test, is studying this new evaluation procedure and will release findings in November. . . . about a National Center for Education Statistics finding that colleges have been hiring more full-time faculty than previously had been thought. New Entrants to the Full-Time Faculty of Higher Education Institutions also finds that 16.9 percent of junior scholars and 11.7 percent of senior professors are minorities. Despite this finding, notes the report, the proportion of faculty who are tenured or tenure-track continues to shrink. . . . about a United Nations study showing Americans work the longest hours in the industrialized world. U.S workers averaged 1,966 hours at work. Japan came in second with 1,899 hours. Western Europe has seen a decline in hours worked, with Norway producing the shortest hours, 1,399. But the longer hours haven't made U.S. workers more productive. The U.S. lead in productivity is being whittled away by European and Japanese rivals who are working less, says the report by the International Labor Organization. |
