Word: curriculum
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Students speculated the huge turnout may have had something to do with the fact that the course counts for dual credit in the Core Curriculum--both for Foreign Cultures and Historical Study...
...materially its professed ideals of service to society. Last year the Law School set aside some money for students wishing to pursue low paying public service work during the summer, rather than the prices corporate work so many seek. The Medical School has began work on a new curriculum that will put greater emphasis on the ethical and personal issues doctors control; Through the School of Education. Harvard is stepping up practical efforts to improve public education in this country...
...Even Chancellor Wharton cannot shift a secretarial position or substantially expand a department without permission from the state division of the budget. Tuition money is bled away to pay off old construction debts. And there is not enough new money to lure crack faculty or beef up the graduate curriculum. Under the dead hand of such regulations, continues the report, SUNY is "well behind" other major public universities in research and graduate education...
Porte added that Delbanco's departure would also mean that his popular core offering, Literature of the Outsider, would also not return. However, Delbanco said that he hoped that "the core curriculum would continue to include material [that I] covered in the course...
Fair enough; he did bring Cambridge's medieval curriculum into the 19th century to suit his taste for math and the sciences. Nor was that all. Albert initiated the Crystal Palace exhibition of modern industry, as of 1851. He fought to abolish dueling. He promoted the Christmas tree. He composed music for the Duke of Wellington's funeral. He managed a lot of little things well. Yet even this doting biographer concedes that he was "excessively conscientious on quite minor matters." Albert died at 42, almost as much from overwork as from influenza...