Word: approaches
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Because of the decentralized approach Harvard has adopted in the past, problems--which the University-wide ethics program aims to rectify--have arisen with insuring that students receive sufficient ethical training. Trying to integrate ethics into the curriculum as a whole, the plan favored by deans and faculty at the B-School, is a worthy goal, but may fail in the execution, say experts on ethics. ethics into the curriculum as a whole, the plan favored by deans and faculty at the B-School, is a worthy goal, but may fail in the execution, say experts on ethics...
...Commissioner Edward M. Fleischman '54 said that Shad gave money to Harvard for a program that would approach ethics from a variety of angles. "The chairman is no visionary, and he's no fool. His attitude is multi-dimensional, and part of his attitude is that you have to teach ethics along with the rest," Fleischman said. "Part of the job is to give an official imprimateur to the role of ethics, showing what the problems...
Currently, the English and History departments are absorbing the first impact of what promises to be a large number of retirements as the professors tenured more than a quarter of a century ago approach retirement age. These retirements signal the end of an era of Harvard scholarship which has left both departments struggling to redefine their images while maintaining their reputations...
...said earlier in the year that in addition to the opportunity to become chairman at Stanford, the greater affinity for the social sciences at the California school made the offer more attractive. "It is the vision of Stanford's department that we not reduce literature to a certain theoretical approach. We should be more open to influences from all the social sciences," said Apostolides, who holds a doctorate in sociology...
Harvard's Department Chairman Per Nykrog says that Apostolides's departure is a major loss, but adds that "it is our intention to do our best to find someone who can represent his methodological approach...