Word: assertively
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...unclear at Harvard. There’s an important issue of academic integrity at the core of this problem. Harvard is not Verizon. Values other than maximizing shareholder value ought to hold sway in the University environment. Universities should make it plain how a student can assert a defense. Universities ought to support their students in cases like Slater?...
...Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning—the institution that trains Harvard teaching fellows. “This topic comes up very often at Harvard and it has been going on for a long, long time…I think some women are not as willing to assert their opinions in class and the problem is very noticeable.” Warren did acknowledge this varies depending on course and concentration, but it is a large enough issue that the center actually trains teaching fellows how to encourage more female undergraduates to participate in class discussions...
...school that boasts fostering the world leaders of tomorrow, this gender imbalance does not bode well for the realities beyond the Ivory Tower. We are supposed to be the generation that breaks the glass ceiling. If we cannot assert ourselves on this campus, where does that leave...
Corporate America has beaten down the ordinary American worker for too long, and Greider believes that these victimized workers are fed up and ready to assert their power. In his new book The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy, Greider insists that there is no question of the widespread discontent among American employees; instead, as Grieder explained in an interview while in Cambridge promoting his book, “the question is whether people today have the sort of core courage and dedication to take on the big boys and stay with it as long...
...Crimson doesn’t win the battle up front and Dartmouth manages to assert its running game, Harvard will find itself contending with many of the same difficulties that emerged last weekend against the Tigers...