Word: audits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Policy Committee has issued an educational audit of the Linguistics Department which suggests that the department revise its tutorial program to integrate more effectively the different areas of linguistic study...
...report also praised the department for the "extraordinary personal treatment accorded to each individual." The audit expressed the hope that the small department--it has 16 concentrators this year--"never loses its warm personality...
...general manager said Friday that this summer's annual audit of Coop expenses, received last week, determined what the new lower rates would be. He cited new and continuing construction costs, real estate taxes, and interest as causes...
...Faubus' lame-duck appointments to state agencies, then attempted to block Rockefeller's nominees. The Governor had to go to court to make good an appointment to the public service commission. Like Arkansas Razorbacks crunching opposition ball carriers, the legislators downed one Rockefeller proposal after another: an audit of the corruption-tainted highway department, reform of jury selection, a $1-an-hour minimum wage, regulation of state employees' political activities. In a private aside that became embarrassingly public, Rockefeller said of the legislators: "I wish the bastards would go home...
...stroke of luck, the most successful audit (in terms of proposals accepted) was the first and most highly-publicized one, the Government Department audit. That audit combined hard-working subcommittee members with a cooperative department chairman, and the spill-over from that success has set the tone for the whole program. "It acted as a catalyst for other departments," Riesman has noted; he feels that it helps a reform-minded Faculty member to be able to say authoritatively that "the students want this." Chalmers too thinks that the audits have been the HPC's most valuable contribution. "They make people...