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...also contributes to the high proportion of specialists. In one study, only 37 percent of those intending to go into family care ended up in family practice. Those who defected were more likely than those rejecting other specialties to quote a lack of prestige, anxiety over mastering a wide breadth of knowledge, and paradoxically, a low academic content as the reasons for their change in focus...
...playing lead roles in the campaign both as volunteers and as donors,” he said. “The campaign has launched with really amazing momentum” and has met success “both in terms of the levels of giving and increasing the breadth of giving.” But not all smaller schools are victims of the dearth of experience cited in the survey. Vice President for Development at Dickinson College Donald A. Hasseltine reported that their campaign has gone “very well,” noting that past and current trustees...
...should have the best Chinese leader leading [Siemens] China with the best Chinese team. We should have the best Indian leader running [Siemens] India with the best Indian team. We are very fortunate because we did a fantastic job in the U.S. In the U.S., we have the breadth and depth and connectivity that we need to have to really be an American company...
...What Lowell praised is now referred to as “liberal arts”—a well-rounded curriculum that attempts to balance some specialization with a breadth of knowledge, an effort to effectively create modern Renaissance men. With a Core Curriculum and 44 undergraduate concentrations, Harvard attempts to provide the sort of education that Lowell dreamt...
...Many students and professors appreciate this need for a breadth of knowledge. “I have yet to find a student who has not felt that the liberal arts…provides them with a very unique perspective on the sciences or the social sciences,” says Homi K. Bhabha, a literature professor and director of the Humanities Center. “Though academically they may be experts in particular areas, one of the things the liberal arts does is create an intellectual bridge across disciplines...