Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Business School, a campus-wide computer system of IBM PCs has been in place for more than a year. The system provides for basic communication needs including everything from computerized billboards to class schedules. And the school's curriculum, which focuses primarily on case study situations, relies on the machines to compute high-level business decisions that officials say would be immpossible without computers...
...bursting beyond church walls into the wider society. Not since the 1920s have political Fundamentalists been as well financed, visible, organized and effective. Deeply committed believers, working long and zealously, get tavern hours trimmed in Anchorage; disrupt school-board meetings in Hillsboro, Mo., as they demand to control curriculum; force doctors to stop performing abortions in Virginia Beach, Va.; march in San Antonio streets to protest sex channels on cable TV. The shelves of religious bookstores are filled with their social protests, in which the buzz words "secular humanism" are used to cover anything and everything the authors disapprove...
...Assistant Deans, Melissa D. Gerrity and Phyllis Keller are both considered crack administrators. Gerrity, associate dean for financial affairs, is in charge of the budget, and is an important consultant on tuition and salaries. Keller, associate dean for for academic planning, helped develop the now well established Core Curriculum under former Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky. She also is involved in tenure searches...
...absurdly named Ministry of Clams, a sort of dead-letter office for all insoluble problems, whose minister believes that attempting to solve them would be "a mockery of the human condition." Blond-haired people, regarded as inferior, are downtrodden. Under Saint Sebastian's Enlightenment, the schools offer a nonstop curriculum of American B movies of the 1930s and '40s, with nuns serving as ushers and priests cranking the projectors...
Education Director-General Eliezer Shmueli believes so strongly in the coexistence course that it has been made part of the regular school curriculum. "We don't have all the answers," Shmueli says, "but let us discuss, scream, shout, and let us get to know each other." That has been precisely the effect of the civics program, as exemplified by a three-day trip last month by Arab students to the town of Sderot, where they stayed with Jewish families. "We feel comfortable enough with one another to speak openly," says Revital Levy, 17, about her new Arab friends. "I think...