Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...systems purchased from IBM by the B-school have two-year maintenance warranties. Galvin, who is overseeing all aspects of introducing PCs into the first-year Masters of Business Administration (MBA) curriculum, said IBM replaced computer components if the owner felt they were defective...
...Core curriculum, as set up by former Dean of the Faculty Henry A. Rosovsky, is intended to give undergraduates a broad, interdisciplinary education. At its best, it is designed to teach ways of thinking and not just knowledge. Limiting the ways in which students are taught to think about economics, as about any other discipline, runs counter to any traditional concept of a liberal arts education...
Trudy Hammer, associate principal at the Emma Willard School, says that as a result of Gilligan's findings on female moral develoment, the school is in the process of overhauling its curriculum and placing more emphasis on collaborative learning and less on the more autonomous, competitive techniques. "We're trying to move away from the male way of doing things" she says...
Harvard's library, which employs about 13 specialists in different areas who determine which books will be purchased, operates according to three basic principles, Feng says: to build on the system's strengths, to collect in response to curriculum needs, and to recognize "the broad scope of human knowledge that any self-respecting institution should be committed...
...teaching--will start to start this fall. This year, the applicants will try for the 25 places in the first-ever class, for next fall. A preliminary draft of proposals, approved over the summer, named committees who are now working on faculty recruitment, allocation of educational resources, and curriculum development...