Word: curriculums
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...good for recruiters,” said Chistopher L. Grashoff, a second year MBA student. “They have to jump through a lot of hoops to recruit here.” Despite its 14th placement nationally, HBS topped two separate lists—one for most practical curriculum and one for best school to find a potential CEO. —Staff writer Madeline W. Lissner can be reached at mlissner@fas.harvard.edu...
Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan highlighted her accomplishments in growing the school’s faculty, expanding its campus, and revising its curriculum in a ‘State of the School’ address yesterday. “The state of the law school is—surprise!—exceptionally strong,” Kagan said to cheers, “and [it’s] growing stronger every day.” Kagan announced in her address that the school is going forward with its physical expansion, planning a 250,000 square-foot building just...
...Some educators are so convinced of the surprising benefit of work on students, especially those at risk of failing, that they have incorporated internships into the curriculum. The Big Picture Company, a nonprofit funded by the Gates Foundation that runs 36 schools in 12 states, considers internships "the core" of high-school education...
...named in late June. But the APO is not the only office to see change. Over the summer, former assistant dean of the College Julia G. Fox moved from University Hall to the Office of Career Services, where she now acts as assistant dean for life skills curriculum development. Fox previously oversaw the Ann Radcliffe Trust, which now falls under the auspices of the new women’s center. Noel Bisson, who previously served as assistant dean at Colgate University in New York, will act as the new assistant dean of undergraduate education. Bisson says she plans to work...
...opposition is not only misguided—Harvard instructors are capable of making their own career choices—but it necessarily compromises Harvard’s ostensible commitment to teaching by suggesting that college instruction alone is not a worthy career. Second, administrators insist, control of the curriculum should rest only with tenured professors, the most accomplished scholars in a given field. This should largely continue to be the case. But in many fields, lecturers teach longstanding curricula—such as in introductory mathematics—or deftly tweak them to fit their own needs—such...