Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although recently the Medical School has revamped its curriculum and reasserted support for students interested in primary care, the school has not done enough to address the distribution problem, according to Dean of Students at the Medical School Myra B. Ramos...
...decision to increase emphasis on social medicine was a positive step towards increased awareness, according to Ramos, but it wasn't part of a broad policy change. "I cannot say at this moment that this is a deliberate force of the curriculum. The curriculum is not particularly directive and it would not be in its tradition to be directive in one particular area," Ramos says...
...activities include chairing the Undergraduate Council's Academics Committee, writing about the Core Curriculum for The New York Times, and founding the Harvard College Forum, a magazine that prints outstanding academic writing...
...they told me to choose between chess and mathematics. I thought chess would be better." Her sisters just naturally followed. Their parents, both teachers and neither gifted chess players, now oversee the children's careers full time. The girls have never attended conventional schools, and study a high school curriculum at home between practice games. On a typical day, they rise at midmorning, trot out for a game of soccer, then hunker over their chessboards until early afternoon, when teams of expert volunteers arrive to rehearse opening gambits and defense strategies until late in the evening...
...real situation is any "different" this year. You do not remind us that other candidates push for other goals, which, like divestment, may or may not happen to be acceptable to individual voters. All candidates worth voting for always push their own policies and preferences--in finances, in curriculum, in academic administration, and otherwise--and presumably we elect them on the basis of their commitments and convictions. That our candidates have opinions--even strong and perhaps single-minded ones--is no criticism of their abilities, and far from threatening the electoral process and the composition of the board actually should...