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Chin devotes all of her time away from her academic work to projects in Chinatown. "Supposedly graduate students are supposed to devote every hour of their non-sleeping, non-eating time to their work," she says. "Fortunately the School of Education is flexible enough so there is room for people...
Lewontin admits that some people never did the reading or showed up for the lectures, but, he complains, students couldn't devote more of their time to Nat Sci 36 because they felt pressured to work hard for their other courses.
I want the audience to work. I ask them to see the film from the beginning and devote their full attention to it, treating it with the same respect they would give a painting, a symphony, or any work of art. I treat them with the same respect by inviting...
One post-1969 change about which few senior faculty members would disagree is the unparalleled expansion of the time they must devote to administrative work, usually in the form of serving on committees. As University officials came to realize the need for a broadening of the decision-making process, professors...
MIT plans to devote $100 million of the drive to its regular endowment of $335 million, $43.2 million to new programs such as energy and health services, and $61.8 million to new and renovated facilities, leaving $20 million for discretionary funds, Lees said.