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...more effective ways to engender curricular continuity could be achieved through better coordination with concentrations—although we believe the onus should be on the writing program to adapt more so than the concentrations. The report recommends that “concentrations make instruction and feedback on written and oral communication an integral part of the concentration program”—a worthy objective, especially since tutorials, which tend to focus on written and oral instruction, are among students’ premier academic experiences. But not all concentrations, especially engineering and hard sciences, can afford to create...
...little over a generation and a half of students who went through public schools, had the right to access public schools and increasingly those people are coming to universities and seeking equal access,” Hehir says. Disabled students like Ford are no longer willing to completely adapt themselves to college systems. They believe that the college system should work harder to adapt to them...
...somethings in building 41, the answers are all but obvious. For the rest of us, it might take some grappling. The outcome will of course be determined by how Google and its patrons re-invest their spoils and how they adapt to the market for information that is changing and reforming beneath our feet. One thing we do know is that the 30-something founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are doing everything they can to retain control of the company that they launched when they were getting their PhDs at Stanford, in 1997. They will still...
...scientific evidence by environmental pressure groups, urged us to be optimistic rather than despairing about environmental problems, and set out what should be the true priorities of environmental action. He thinks global warming is happening but that it would be better and cheaper for the world to adapt to it rather than cut carbon emissions...
...virtually no new posts and had cost taxpayers €15 billion in subsidies. The findings were widely seen as politically partisan. Still bruised from the polls, Raffarin swiftly reassured the public that no 35-hour reform was imminent. That doesn't surprise many French business owners. "The ability to adapt [the] workforce to peak and slack periods was good, but I knew when I applied the 35-hour week that I wouldn't make new hires," says Patrick Roos, who employs 38 at his custom-made shutter company in Burgundy. Though he says he'd love to see more flexible...