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Sociology recovering, filling vacancies

Staff Reporter
Published Tuesday, October 9, 2001

With four senior appointments in the last three years and searches to fill more top spots ongoing, the Sociology Department is coming back from the dead.

As it continues its massive, and thus far successful, rebuilding effort, Sociology is enjoying a vitality that seemed improbable -- if not impossible -- only ten years ago. After years of uncertainty, longtime faculty said the department is finally optimistic.

In the past three years, the department has made 11 offers to sociologists around the world, and two have been accepted. Eight sociologists declined, but one...

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