Word: cores
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...fact, Bok's claim is, in this case, partly true. We know from experience that many core courses have fewer than 1000 people in them. And rumours have filtered through the grapevine that some classes, especially in subjects like Gaelic Window Dressing, and Musical Traditions of the Early Troglodytes, have so few students that professors are able to have personal relationships with several members of the class. We have never taken such courses, however, for several reasons. First, the classes are small for a reason: the topic is dull or obscure, for example. Second, in very small classes...
Analogous to the construction of the undergraduate core curriculum, the Medical School's as yet untested first-year program amounts to a major overhaul of a long-entrenched classical academic program. The effects of the change will be felt by not only the incoming students, but also by a somewhat reluctant faculty which is being asked to divert much of its research time to the task of training doctors...
...same time, it would be unrealistic to think hard-core cheaters would stop cheating just because the word "honor" is attached to the monitoring method. After all, if you cheat well, you can be an "honors" student...
Bennett has some markedly ecumenical company, including Carnegie Foundation President Ernest Boyer, a liberal. Boyer's 1986 book College: The Undergraduate Experience in America takes higher education to task for disjointed careerist study programs, confusion over goals and lack of a liberal arts core curriculum. Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, declares himself a Hirsch fan. "Education holds our society together only as long as what is taught has value and is important," he says. "You can't teach reading with comic books and rock-star magazines and expect kids to be educated...
...compatible marketplace, Apple (1986 revenues: $2 billion) continues to thrive by going its own way with machines that run on different software. The company's products have long been favored by educators and hobbyists, but now more corporate customers are taking a shine to the newest machines at the core of Apple's line: the Macintosh SE and the Macintosh II. Many executives have decided that Apple's machines are more user friendly than comparable IBM models. Apple's success in the office market is largely the work of Chairman John Sculley, 48, the hard- driving ex-Pepsi-Cola president...