Word: classroom
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...turned out to be an idea that worked for them. Their new offices in lower Manhattan are stuffed with models for real projects, not propositions?numerous condos, two retail commissions in Beijing, the master plan for an entire city in India, a classroom building at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and a partnership with the firm of eminent British architect Richard Rogers and landscape designer Ken Smith to weave esplanades, greenery and pavilions into a two-mile (3 km) stretch of waterfront along Manhattan's Lower East Side...
...measures will, we hope, adequately address the broken lines of communication between students and faculty. This new system will have various benefits. First off, it will provide teaching staff an opportunity to help academically struggling students before they fall through the proverbial cracks. Especially in classes that center around classroom discussion, students often have no barometer for their performance in a course until the final term paper is graded—at which point, nothing can be done to salvage his or her grade. Motivated students who may have been unaware of their subpar performance in a course will...
...Harvard Business School, and a Goldman Sachs internship lined up for the summer. Pencz is also among the troop of undergraduates who heads down Mass Ave a few days a week for accounting courses at MIT. It’s this idea of using time outside the classroom to build the skills necessary to break into finance that has given birth to popular extracurricular groups like Women in Business, Harvard Pre-Medical Society, and Harvard College Law Society...
...book, “Elvis is Titanic: Classroom Tales From the Other Iraq,” is a memoir of the semester he spent there: a reconciliation between historical realities and idealism, and a powerful documentation of the everyday lives of young Iraqi Kurds...
...question for Harvard—which supplies 29 students to the Army, Navy, and Marines ROTC—is whether the University does enough to support its would-be officers in an endeavor that, if seen through to the end, poses stakes higher than any classroom ever could...