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...fears.A related worry is that delaying concentration choice will lead to less “rigorous” concentrations that fail to prepare students for graduate school. While the EPC urges all concentrations to limit the number of required courses to a level consistent with the goals of a broad liberal arts education, we have no interest in stipulating a course cap for individual students. In most departments, it makes sense for students who intend to pursue graduate studies to take more courses than students with other goals, and this is precisely the reason why a minimum number of concentration...
...others who occupy the demanding position of college or university president. The most effective academic leaders do not rule by fist, fiat, furor, or fear, but rather by listening, building consensus, and creating a context for the institution to thrive.Leaders, as opposed to managers, are expected to have a broad vision of their institution, a set of ambitious but manageable goals, the skill to choose and trust lead staff members, the capacity to devise and implement strategies that allow them to advance toward their goals, and the agility to shift course when doing so seems necessary. In an authoritarian regime...
...focus on those experiments which we feel are the cruellest and the most useless.”But the University denied charges of abusive practices. John Lacey, associate director of public affairs for media relations at HMS, said that although the center’s “broad and diverse” portfolio of research might include drug experimentation, the primate lab did not addict its animals to drugs.The primate lab is “currently working toward an HIV vaccine and other critical human health advances,” according to a statement released by HMS, as well...
...local parlance as 1010 WINS. I mention this because two Fridays ago, in a live sequence that could appropriately be titled HARVARD LOSES THEN WINS, that spanned two sports and two arenas, and lasted for almost precisely 22 minutes of game time, I was treated to a broad and satisfying taste of the world of sports.Friday night was the start of Penn-Princeton weekend in Cambridge, a big occasion for the Crimson squads in action and the fans that follow them. After a hearty meal at Shabbat 1000, I hurried across the river to catch the tail end of men?...
...many issues at the summit, including tsunami relief, supporting the Afghan government, Iran's nuclear ambitions, returning democracy to Nepal, and containing avian flu. But one of the most crucial items on the agenda is the two nations' impending Nuclear Agreement. Last July, Singh and Bush agreed on the broad outlines of a nuclear deal that would require India to separate its military and civilian nuclear programs. In exchange the U.S. would share nuclear technology with India, whose population now exceeds one billion and whose energy demand has been voracious...