Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is a sense among us that we need to do a better job in teaching people how to think using quantitative methods far beyond what the present requirement actually defines," says McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis, who is a member of the QRR committee...
...most graduate schools, a dean oversees the institution's academic and administrative life. At the B-School, however, the figure of a concerned leader deeply involved in the daily life of the school yielded to a persona better suited to the business world than academia: to both students and faculty, McArthur is not simply the school's dean--he is its chief executive officer...
Both faculty and students agree in their characterization of McArthur as the model corporate figure whose role--the CEO--is delineated daily within the school's case studies. For better or for worse, he does what is necessary to run the great MBA factory across the river--promoting growth through his executives and middle managers, but rarely fraternizing with the workers...
Huggins says much of the criticism directed against the department is misguided. "I would say right now, without any sense of equivocation, in terms of departments, the Afro-American Studies Department at Harvard is better at this time than any other department or any other program in the country," Huggins asserts...
...council also tried to address campus security by calling for better lighting on the Yard, more police protection and a program to distribute alarm whistles to all students...