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...Dean wasn't alone in his relief. Almost a decade after 3G services were first introduced elsewhere in the world, the Chinese government, which maintains tight control over the country's telecommunications networks, announced on Jan. 7 that China was finally ready to join the party. And despite its late arrival, the debut of 3G, which allows much faster data-transmission speeds and services like Web-surfing and video-streaming, promises to be quite a blowout. Government and private-sector estimates put total probable expenditure on 3G in China - whose 630 million users make up the world's largest group...
...Others in the industry disagree. While Dean of BDA acknowledges that the growth in mobile communications in China is mainly in rural areas where "your 700 millionth subscriber couldn't care less about 3G," he notes that the country's market is so huge there is room for 3G services to prosper. BDA projections put the total number of mobile subscribers in China at 1 billion by 2013, of which nearly a quarter - 247 million - will be 3G users...
Recently, HDS announced that it would be cutting back its budget by 4 to 8 percent in the next fiscal year. HDS Dean William A. Graham announced that the school would reduce the number of adjunct and visiting positions offered the next year. According to Moore, this decision affected several core faculty in PRSE...
...Faculty grapples with the financial crisis, the imminent implementation of General Education may be the last thing on some professors’ minds. But Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds issued a plea for more professors to develop new Gen Ed courses—especially in the sciences and social sciences, where she said there are “very few courses: almost nothing...
...Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis—one of Gen Ed’s most vocal critics—expressed his wariness of a normative curricular discussion...