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...students not providing fully accurate information. “As researchers, we’re always concerned about [reporting bias],” Austin said. “But because it was a randomized controlled trial—six [schools] received the intervention and seven got the usual education??we’d expect that would help make them very similar.” According to Maria F. Bettencourt, who directs the Nutrition and Physical Activity Unit at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the state is expanding similar obesity prevention programs in its public schools...
...hired because Gross found his position—created in 2003 with the consolidation of the separate offices of the dean of the College and dean of undergraduate education??to be too much work for one person...
...government department still places first among political science programs in the U.S. News & World Report rankings. And in the Committee on Undergraduate Education??s annual ratings of professors and classes, “the ratings of individual government courses—although I don’t have scientific analysis at hand—tend to be quite high,” Colton says...
...Monday morning, Faust had no regrets: she was the committee’s choice for higher education??s highest perch...
...list dwindled, the search committee flirted with higher education??s top brass: John W. Etchemendy, provost of Stanford; Amy Gutmann ’71, the former Princeton provost who had taken the reins at the University of Pennsylvania; Alison F. Richard, a former Yale provost who now led one of England’s crown jewels, the University of Cambridge; and Shirley M. Tilghman, a molecular biologist who had led Princeton as president for a half-decade. (The committee seemed prepared to violate the unwritten rule against poaching leaders from fellow Ivies—if the right candidate...