Word: broaden
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...course,” says head teaching fellow and former student A. Cansu Aydede ’11. The CS50 fair, which took place this year and allowed students to showcase their final projects to the larger community, is evidence of this mission. Malan says that his motivation to broaden CS50’s appeal stems from his own experience with the class when he was an undergraduate at Harvard. Originally a government concentrator, he didn’t take CS50 until his sophomore year. “It was reputed even among the geeky circles I was already running...
...first African-American head of the EPA. Environmentalism is often thought of as a concern for a narrow, well-off elite. How do you want to change that perception and broaden the green tent...
...facility on the outskirts of Lahore and later vowed to carry out similar attacks in Pakistan "at least twice a week." Mehsud claimed that his new bombing campaign was retribution for CIA-operated drone attacks that have begun to shower on his fighters since the Obama Administration decided to broaden its range of targets. By focusing on Mehsud, who recently aligned his forces with al-Qaeda and Taliban elements mounting cross-border attacks into Afghanistan, Islamabad and Washington are in a rare moment of agreement. While the Pakistani political and military leadership has discreetly authorized U.S. drone attacks...
...system in which advising will still involve faculty-student interactions.“We want students to get guidance from faculty members,” Donoghue said. “They can give a good nudge for someone to take romantic poetry next year, or give an incentive to broaden [the academic path] that they would otherwise take if just left to their own devices.”The History Department is aiming to reform their advising system as well. According to Adam G. Beaver, the assistant director of undergraduate studies, there are four layers of academic advising?...
...Committee on Ethnic Studies is considering an elongation of its name in an effort to recognize the diversity of its focus areas and to broaden its curricular scope in the future. Presented yesterday before the Faculty Council—the 18-member governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—the proposed name change to “The Committee on the Study of Ethnicity, Migration, Indigeneity, and Human Rights” would address the numerous academic dimensions that may not be fully represented under the current title. “This new name will better reflect...