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...committee correctly suggests that teaching records should be examined more thoroughly and consistently. A change will only occur when Harvard sends a clear signal to prospective faculty members that teaching matters in tenure decisions.Second, the Task Force’s proposal to create a system for faculty to audit and evaluate their colleagues’ courses will create a culture of constructive criticism that can only benefit teaching. Similar systems already exist at many of Harvard’s professional schools, and FAS should follow suit.The third key recommendation is that course evaluations be mandatory for all courses over...
...have become closely linked: EDS runs all GM's computerized operations, from processing paychecks to programming robots on assembly lines. But in the original merger agreement Perot had insisted that he and EDS be granted a highly unusual degree of independence. He did not want the parent company to audit EDS. Moreover, he demanded that EDS be allowed to maintain a different pay structure from GM's?one that called for greater variation in salaries and bonuses, to give EDS employees better incentives for good performance. It galled top GM officials that some of their EDS counterparts were making more...
...prove he had organized the protest and that it had caused substantial material harm. Chen argued compellingly that the prosecution's case rested on a report by an appraisal company that explicitly stated it had treated all the mining firm's claims as fact-instead of conducting an independent audit-and on an eyewitness account by someone who had been miles away from the scene of the protest. Chen also called a witness who testified under oath to having been coerced by police into signing an affidavit he had not read. But despite the presence of dozens of onlookers (including...
Universities might not be doing enough to guard “sensitive information” in their research labs, “potentially putting at risk U.S. national security interests,” according to a federal audit released this week. The audit, from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), suggests that schools receiving Defense Department funding aren’t doing enough to guard their gadgets from foreign countries and terrorists. Though it wasn’t mentioned by name in the report, Harvard received $21.9 million in Defense Department research funding in the 2005 fiscal year, the most recent...
...recent meeting with students, FAS Executive Dean Nancy L. Maull agreed to set up an Energy Audit Task Force to recommend a target reduction for greenhouse gas emissions, according to Jake C. Levine ’06-’07, co-chair of the Environmental Action Committee (EAC), which supported the UC bill...