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...decade later, the Medical School considered loosening its regulations and convened a faculty committee to assess them. The school’s dean, Joseph B. Martin, elected to let the current policies stand, “rather than add yet another variation,” he wrote in a statement at the time. And the policies have changed little since then...
...definitely would [recommend taking a year off]—my brother is a junior, but I’m already pushing for him to take a gap year—it has allowed me to take a step back, assess where I was, and come back more prepared,” Adler says...
...wants to establish a new Center for Evaluation to apply the academic gold standard to medical education techniques. “To ensure that curriculum reform is not a faith-based initiative,” the vignette continues, “the center will take its measuring tape [to assess how well the curriculum meets students’ needs...
...industrialist, staking his fortunes on what he produced, Mitt moved first into consulting and then into venture capitalism - a field in which, says his former partner and current campaign chairman Bob White, "you need to be able to quickly recognize a good opportunity. You need to be able to assess it in relatively quick, short time frames." Venture capitalists take big risks, with the hope of even bigger returns, often by dismantling a business, jettisoning what doesn't work, retooling what does and unloading the whole thing at a big profit. Romney's firm Bain Capital started in 1984 with...
...Instead of the one-size-fits-all policy now in place for funding HoCos, the UC should hold hearings at the beginning of the year, to assess just how miserable each House’s inhabitants really are, or, more accurately, how miserable they ought to be. Forget that the House system should probably reflect its own randomized nature and keep funding as equal as possible across the board...