The Bloomberg administration's contest to create a school of applied sciences sets high environmental standards, but some competing universities are going much further to out-green one another.
At the University of Western Ontario in London, where postdocs voted to unionize in 2008, the administration continues to contest the right to join of postdocs it considers contractors rather than employees.
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(8) The Obama administration did not contest this point in its briefs.
Nonetheless, after encouraging minority students to embrace their own strength, Professor Kennedy refers to those who contest administration's failures in addressing institutional racism as "dissidents" and describes their grievances as "complaints," some of which have only a "ring of validity" and others that are just outright "dubious".
(Notably, the Obama Administration chose not to contest Hobby Lobby's assertion that use of an I.U.D. was tantamount to abortion; Verrilli said that the government accepted the sincerity of that view).
One former aide, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly, said Mr. Edwards was angling for a role in a Democratic administration, and with the contest still undecided, was hesitant to commit to a candidate.
— CATHERINE RAMPELL In a lightening-round question for all the candidates about the role of the federal government in education, Mr. Perry accused Mr. Romney of supporting President Obama's Race to the Top grant contest, the administration's chief education initiative, which offered states $4.3 billion to implement programs to lift student achievement.
To attract more high-tech jobs and secure New York's status as a rival to California's Silicon Valley, the Bloomberg administration started a bidding contest among several universities around the world to build an élite engineering-and-science campus, on Roosevelt Island, for two thousand graduate students.
Romney on 'Race to the Top' Grants In a lightening-round question for all the candidates about the role of the federal government in education, Mr. Perry accused Mr. Romney of supporting President Obama's Race to the Top grant contest, the administration's chief education initiative, which offered states $4.3 billion to implement programs to lift student achievement.
