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...movement began last fall when the Commission called for better evaluation of the academic growth of students and the denial of federal funds to colleges that refused to measure what students learn and publicly release the results. Now, according to a recent report by the Boston Globe, the Department of Education is working with accrediting agencies to devise new accreditation rules that would push colleges to produce evidence proving that they are educating their students to a certain standard that could go into effect as early...
...words yields heavy casualties when the subject is war itself. In Washington, the White House charged Democrats with trying to win elections by losing a war, and Democrats fired back on a President sunk in a "state of denial." Dick Cheney accused Senate majority leader Harry Reid of ignorance and "defeatism." "I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a 9% approval rating," Reid replied...
...vice-chair of the UC’s Committee on College Life, came to show his support. “Without using our role as student advocates to help raise awareness, we fail our constituents,” he said. “When you have an environment of denial, you also have an environment that’s more permissive.” Susan B. Marine, who directs the Harvard College Women’s Center, said that events like “Take Back the Night” are particularly important in a college setting...
...have a better tomorrow. Above all, it tells the people the truth. No lying. No fudging the numbers. Just the truth about our current moment--which means facing up to the consequences of our paltry national savings, our growing income inequality, our dangerously unilateral foreign policy, our denial of looming environmental disaster and our failures in health care and education...
...come here to study modern Japanese history come here because of Harvard’s strength in the pre-modern era,” Yellen said. Jeffrey Y. Kurashige, a third-year graduate student in pre-modern Japanese history who spent the day gathering signatures, said that the tenure denial seems to indicate that the University is not interested in Adolphson’s field. “The message this decision sends to academia as a whole is that Harvard doesn’t value history before contact with the West,” Kurashige said. Interim President Derek...