However, Mr Cridland would welcome the priority subjects being expanded to include the arts as well.
Advanced undergraduates and graduate students from other disciplines are welcome, but priority for enrollment will be given to graduate students.
All submissions are welcome, but special priority is given to writers and artists of color.
Regarding the news article "U.N. chief asks Uzbek for progress on freedoms," (IHT, April 6): While Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's call on the Uzbekistan government to fulfill its human rights commitments is welcome, shouldn't his priority be, like that of his predecessor, to put his own house in order?
Williams said: "This high level of priority is welcome, as this area of policing needs constant vigilance; domestic abuse has a number of characteristics and police officers need regular training updates to make sure that they are alert to them all.
Instead they need to start sending a less welcome message: that the priority is a strong international agreement, that cuts will have to be made if the worst impacts are to be avoided and that some of the cuts will involve sacrifices.
Katherine Ross, a senior vice president for museum services at Sotheby's, who also chairs Young Collectors Council -- a group of 12 socially active employees at the firm who cultivate future Sotheby's clients -- said that immediate sales gratification, while certainly welcome, was not a priority.
"Thanks to National Lottery players we will be able to empower communities to help protect not just their local red squirrels, but major populations of the species in Scotland, and ensure that future generations can continue to see these special animals". Environment secretary Roseanna Cunningham said the investment was "very welcome" to help a priority species.
Startups like Zymergen ditched the brogrammer culture and made it a priority to welcome women, minority groups and people over 40.
The goal of holding charity steady, or increasing it, even as the tax code is simplified in hopes of jumpstarting the economy, is a welcome contrast to the priorities of the Obama White House.
