Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although admissions officials downplay the importance of that difference, critics say it shows that to gain admission to the University, minority students must have better academic qualifications...
...Clearly I'm not doing a lot of research here, but what I'm doing now can help me do better research back at school. And being a B-School professor has been very effective preparation," Glauber says. He adds that he will return to teaching at the end of his two years as long as he is "still alive...
...administrators had a slightly better record of responding to others' concerns in a recurrent issue this year--the appointments of a new Corporation member and two new deans...
This frightening episode, and two reported incidents of sexual molestation of freshman women, led to increased demands from students and staff members for better security measures around the University. Yet the administration only replaced the student guards at the Science Center with armed, professional ones. Harvard refused to lock three of the building's four doors after business hours or limit access to the upper floors before 5 p.m. because such measures would be inconvenient for some faculty members. The administration also refused to increase the number of street lights in the Yard, even after six assaults of students near...
...think [taking a position] gives the council some direction and I think it sort of focuses the issues a little better," he says. "And besides, it makes the job a lot more...