Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's consistently high ratings in magazinesurveys, such as U.S. News & World Report, onlyenhance the mystique abroad, says Craig W.Worthington, academic dean at the AmericanCommunity School in the London suburb of Cobham,which sends a few students to Ivy League collegesevery year.
n an age of academic specialization and burgeoning subfields, it is unlikely that our concentrations will commit to substantial reductions in course requirements. Nor is it likely that the faculty will abandon the principle that students should commit a significant number of courses to exploring "ways of thinking" outside their...
Bringing the deans together led to the first University-wide academic planning process, in which each school took a look at its future and tried to figure out how to get there. The plans were expensive and gave rise to the first-ever University capital campaign, pegged at the stupefying...
Rudenstine has also pushed a series of "interfaculty initiatives," academic programs that jump from tub to tub in pulling together their faculty. The initiatives, in such areas as the environment and ethics in the professions, are run by the provost's office, which Rudenstine directly presides over, rather than by...
In the remaining years of his presidency, he says he still has three goals left to accomplish: several building projects--the Widener library renovation and the construction of the Knafel center for government and international affairs--must be finished. A planning process examining information technology and distance learning must be...