Word: disinterested
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...CHRONIC faculty absence, like the delay of the first CUE meeting this year, is only one aspect of the Faculty's longstanding disinterest in maintaining CUE as a serious contributor to Faculty policy. CUE was set up in 1969 as part of the Faculty reorganization plan to make recommendations on educational policy to the Faculty Council, which in turn decides whether to send the suggestions on to the Faculty in the form of legislation...
...student Government tutor, agrees that "professors are simply better scholars." However, professors and the University have long ago set priorities that prevent student exploitation of these Faculty skills. Robert N. Brandon, a graduate student who taught Philosophy tutorial three years ago, said the problem partially arose from "faculty members' disinterest in teaching in general, because this is a major research university." Brandon added gently, "It is not that they don't like teaching so much. They just like other things better...
Students play roles of varying importance in educational change. Most schools allow students to serve on committees forming the curricular proposals, but rarely do students initiate any changes. Student reaction to new requirements ranges from annoyance to disinterest to quiet praise. One student at Harper says sarcastically of the proposed requirements there, "Some people are under the impression that this is going to be an Ivy League college someday." A student at Syracuse said his college's plan would lead to a "ridiculous, arbitrary core." But student newspapers at Stanford and Northwestern lauded proposals there...
...marriage of popular disinterest with centralized decision-making usually leads to a miscarriage of justice. Indeed, the current CRR reform proposals are deeply flawed and pose a great threat...
...suit and tie for the first time in recent memory, and at lunches there was an amalgam of reporters, cameramen, White House people, Secret Service and old country boys from the seed stores, feed stores and sawmills, who seemed to wish to preserve an integrity of disinterest but shamed themselves with sneaky over-the-shoulder glances at the outlanders. People watched the national TV news every night to see if they had been...