Word: csc
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...have no choice," says the Rev. Timothy Scully, CSC, founder of the University of Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education, a sort of Catholic version of Teach for America, which trains college grads to work in underserved parochial schools. "We either reinvent ourselves or I don't see how we don't ultimately disappear from America's inner cities. The model upon which we were founded was so different, both from a cost and supply side...
...there are purely private jobs in the region: drive among the dense thickets of office buildings in Tyson's Corner and along the Dulles Toll Road, and you see some impressive corporate HQs--Capital One, Freddie Mac, Gannett, Sprint Nextel. But you also come across mysterious acronyms like BAE, CSC, MITRE and SAIC. These are big-time government contractors, and when Fuller looks closely at job growth in the area, it is mainly these that he sees...
...CSC will not, for whatever reason, act on this immediately, the Deans of the College and the Faculty should take matters into their own hands. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles did as much in September when they fast-tracked several new humanities courses for Core credit. A simple piece of Faculty legislation could also do a world of difference...
Part of the reason the Core is so limited is that the Core Standing Committee (CSC) requires that courses that count for Core credit meet basic requirements, which vary amongst Core areas. All categories, however, require a final exam, and most require a midterm and/or a paper. This needn’t be the case...
...power to make such a change rests with the CSC, which should work immediately to authorize large swaths of courses for Core credit for this spring term. Most upper-level courses are difficult enough that they will not require a high level of scrutiny. The only excuse for not authorizing scores of new courses is surmountable institutional inertia...