Word: curriculums
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...survey, a recent Brown Daily Herald poll found that 70 percent of Brown undergraduates oppose the change.The Undergraduate Council of Students (UCS) is hosting a forum this afternoon in an effort to voice student opinion before the faculty votes to amend the grading system.Brown’s current curriculum, implemented in 1969, does not have distribution requirements and allows students to take courses pass/fail or with whole-letter grades.Brown’s College Curriculum Council proposed last semester to add pluses and minuses to the curriculum but agreed to hold off a vote pending discussion between faculty...
...done than all the headlines about Harvard In Turmoil would suggest. If Bok can capitalize on his reservoir of personal good will with the faculty and deep knowledge of academic governance to make everyone feel consulted, I think he can take the best of what Summers started—curriculum reform, wider financial aid, more support for international study, and expansion to Allston—and keep it moving in a way that won’t have to be revisited by his permanent replacement. (On Allston, placing the new Harvard Stem Cell Insitute on Western Ave. and tapping...
...Management and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Over the course of the three days, HBS faculty instructed the players with the MBA’s case method. Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance and former chairman of the MBA program W. Carl Kester said he developed the curriculum to best complement the players’ needs. “We are not trying to cover the whole waterfront,” Kester said. “The program is all with the aim to enable people to take action on their ideas.” St. Louis Rams?...
...Many students expressed a dissatisfaction with the current Core Curriculum and advising system...
...close is by no means unique. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand recalls controversy surrounding presidential searches dating back to 1909. President Charles William Eliot, Class of 1853, transformed Harvard into a research university. Forty years later, a lack of structure in the curriculum led to his ouster. His successor—A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877—created the concept of the concentration. Lowell, in turn, came under fire for his racism and anti-Semitism. A search committee installed James B. Conant ’14 in 1933, who helped create...