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...response to meetings with students and self-review, the faculty is completing a wholesale curriculum reform that will usher in next year: a new advising system with two faculty dedicated full time to advising and programming, a revised sophomore tutorial program, a new set of junior research seminars, an improved system of senior thesis mentoring and advice on research funding, added “meat and potatoes” courses in all areas with faculty taught sections, more advice and support for study abroad, more regular consultation with students, and more informal student/faculty gatherings...
Next year the Texas State Board of Education will be writing the science curriculum standards for Texas public schoolchildren, and Huckabee may bring enough conservative fundamentalist voters to the polls on March 4 to swing the balance of power on the board to the supporters of creationism. "If Huckabee marshals the religious right in Texas, particularly in North Texas, it has profound implications for the state board," says Kathy Miller, executive director of the Texas Freedom Network (TFN), an Austin-based advocacy group whose stated goal is to "counter the religious right" in public policy issues, particularly education...
...said. “That’s just not the case.” As an example, Way mentioned the career internship program, which allows players to intern with different corporations around the country during the off-season. Although each of the four schools has its own curriculum for the program, all of the schools still provide participants with an exposure to basic finance and accounting skills, according to Roberts. After spending this week at the Business School, the players will return home for four weeks to research their own business idea. The players will then return to campus...
...Although current freshmen and sophomores may have the option of graduating under Gen Ed, the curriculum will not go fully into effect until fall 2009, making the Class of 2013 the first to enter under the new curriculum...
...order to get a class approved for Gen Ed credit, professors must submit an application to the Gen Ed implementation committee describing their proposed course and how it fits into the goals of the new curriculum as a whole, Harris said...