"The longer people are enrolled, the more it costs, and if students have to borrow, it drives up their debt load," says Sally L. Stroup, head of the office of postsecondary education at the Department of Education, which has been soliciting recommendations on what role the federal government can play in spurring students to graduate sooner.
It's worth soliciting recommendations from other chiefs at the clubhouse or calling a gallery specializing in portraits.
They also cultivate employee participation in some problem solving and solicit recommendations for improving the workplace.
The chairman of the board solicited recommendations from J. Richard Gott, a member of the astrophysics department at Princeton.
Early in the Long Island Transportation 2000 study, sponsored by the Department of Transportation, the agency solicited recommendations, including cross-Sound bridges (Oyster Bay-Rye, Shoreham-New Haven).
But the government, which has solicited recommendations from farm groups on how to streamline the program, must not let industry lobbyists dictate the changes.
And now that the administration has suggested it will make no policy determination until after Afghanistan's presidential runoff, there is plenty of time to solicit recommendations from the front.
Job-hunters can also use their networks to gather intelligence about prospective employers and to solicit recommendations that strengthen their candidacies, and they can benefit from some of the career tools that networks provide.
But a handful of small liberal arts colleges actually solicit recommendations, if you can call them that, from the families of applicants — as another window into an applicant's character.
The tenant association is holding a forum on Saturday to solicit recommendations and to explain the plan to residents of the complexes, which sit between 14th and 23rd Streets and First Avenue and the East River.
It solicits recommendations from teachers and alumni of previous conferences, and it culls names from mailing lists, for which the council paid $263,000 in 2006 alone, according to its last filing with the Internal Revenue Service, before it gave up its nonprofit status.
