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...confidential letter which is considered in conjunction with reviews from outside scholars. Mailed back from across the nation and sometimes across the globe, the external letters respond to the 20 or so requests from departments for evaluations of tenure candidates compared to five or six other scholars in a cohort spanning 10 to 15 years. The internal and external reviews inform each other. “They look at nominally the same thing, but the outside letters have less insight into teaching, advising, and internal service,” says Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department Chair Cynthia Friend, who chaired...
...crunch times” (when there are study cards to be signed, for instance). The icing on the cake would be well-funded dorm-wide social events, like sports events, barbeques by the Charles, and special student-faculty functions, which would be attended by each dorm’s cohort of fellows and freshmen. The goal is the creation of community on three levels—within dormitories, so that freshmen could imaginably knock on someone’s dorm outside their entryway when they need help the night before Ec 10 problem sets are due; within entryways, so that...
...children are as adept as the rest of their cohort at multitasking, and they persuaded me, reluctantly, to IM them while they were away at college. But even among this wired generation there are dissenters who actively crave unplugged quiet time. Our daughter left her cell phone at home when she went to college, hasn't had one for the past two years and has no interest in having an iPod. Her favorite version of multitasking? Knitting while reading a 19th century novel...
...roommates. But with around 150 students assigned to each House each year, the likelihood of being unable to find two or three people to live with would be a small one. And in those few unlikely cases where a freshman felt unable to find compatible roommates among their housing cohort, a procedure for early transfers, before the beginning of sophomore year, could be put in place...
...Australia has been transformed during the past decade. Globalization, the Internet, terrorism and the rise of China, among other things, have dictated the velocity and form of change. As well, demographics - the ageing of the baby boomer cohort and immigration - is having a dynamic effect. For politicians, the modern condition means an electorate that is demanding, less tribal and more materialistic. In general, Australians are older, wealthier, deeper in debt, unsettled by events beyond the country's shores, and lead their private lives in anything but conventional ways. What has Howard contributed - and what has he taken away...