Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arguments in mind, it seems appropriate now to come to a decision and to take steps to resolve some of the issues at hand. To fail to do so is to allow what has been recognized as a patchwork system to continue indefinitely, and to attempt indefinitely to meet core problems with piecemeal solutions...
Plans vary, but the basic idea is that employees can arrange their own work hours around a "core" time. At the Chicago HEW office, employees must be on the job between 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.; but they can come in as early as 7, and stay as late as 5:30. Under some Flextime plans, workers choose a starting and a quitting time and have to stick to it. Under others they can, with their bosses' permission, come in at different times each day. Says Katy Westlund, a switchboard operator for Hewlett-Packard, which has adopted Flextime...
...MATTER how one feels about the concentration task force recommendation to open the limited enrollment concentrations, the document's clearcut stand and well-defined arguments must be admired. Similarly, regardless of the programs suggested, the core curriculum task force's report must be praised for its boldness and originality. Both documents, particularly the core curriculum statements, are models of concise and clear wording. Although both task forces were faced with the possibilities that their programs would not be enacted, neither hedged on difficult positions. The core curriculum group ran the risk of alienating many segments of the community with...
...attempt to deal with the problem of the revolving--door Masters, when Houses experience one, two or even three masters within a single College generation. The way such deep-seated problems are attacked clearly draws a distinction between this report and a task force report such as the core curriculum group's. Whereas the core curriculum task force recognized that the general education system is failing, and was not afraid to offend the program's constituents, the college life task force preferred to duck the master problem altogether. Instead of addressing the fact that some masters are not performing their...
...vagueness by noting that the subject, college life, is a broad topic. "This report is a bit like life itself," he says. "Some of it is mundane. Some of it is better than life itself. A better locker room for girls in athletics is a different thing than core curriculum...