Word: developable
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...Certainly we need a lot more work to figure out what to do about the disparities,” Emmons said. “We don’t know a lot about how to reduce them.” The first step will be to develop a common strategy. According to Glazer, the team will use the $4.3 million to expand and develop medical training programs for minority students, support research, and promote community outreach. Kennedy, Emmons, and Glazer said they all view the pairing of the DF/HCC and UMass-Boston as an important first step in eliminating inequalities...
...also makes it easy to develop emotional attachments with the students—who are alternately discouraged, distraught, and joyous, but always passionate—and with Pascal, who leads a hunger strike on Guantánamo and represents the other refugees in demanding respect and freedom...
...would still agree that wisdom is equally if not more valuable than mere knowledge of systematized fact and empirically-verified truth. The very first sentence of the Report of the Committee on General Education appears to concur, noting that “a responsible education must help students develop their capacities for reasoning and for responsible judgment.” Though espousing these ideals, the report nevertheless fails to preserve perhaps the Core’s greatest virtue—a required component in morality and ethics. Without such a requirement, the report, despite its best intentions, threatens to push...
...ameliorate the negative effects” of the military’s presence on gay and lesbian students.Facing Pentagon threats to block federal funding, Kagan announced in October that the school would cooperate with recruiters and exempt the military from its nondiscrimination policy.According to Paik, the task force will develop possible responses to the Rumsfeld v. FAIR decision, expected sometime next year.“If the decision comes out in favor of FAIR, we hope [the University] will take immediate action to reenact its nondiscrimination policy,” Paik said, adding that University administrators “really...
...Dangerous infections in the developing world are a concern for everybody on earth. Disease is a threat to all of society and so requires an integrated and coordinated approach. Other factors that influence people's health, such as education and safe food and water, also require attention while we focus on how to treat disease. A coordinated approach necessitates the involvement of the entire world?both advanced and yet-to-develop countries. Folahan Adekola Paris...