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Chilean President Michelle Bachelet emphasized that the success of democracy in Latin America is contingent on the involvement and equality of citizens, in a speech at the Institute of Politics last night. According to Bachelet, who was elected Chile’s first female president in 2006, democracy in Latin America has reached a point where its implementation is no longer on everyone’s minds, making the system vulnerable to an increase in apathy and institutional distrust among citizens. “What I mean is not that I am a pessimist, but we have...
...You’d find a lot of them equate these tests with intelligence. It’s not an intelligence test.”It is certainly refreshing to see leading figures in American higher education awaken to the fact that a high SAT score does not necessarily equal a qualified college candidate. That said, they should not act upon that discovery by abolishing consideration of the test without proposing a viable alternative to discriminate between certain college applicants. Flawed though it may be, the SAT, along with the ACT, remains the only standardized aspect of the American college...
...more universally old-fashioned workplace; Judge thinks there's hope for future generations of workers: "The gap is narrowing," he says. "Older people do have more traditional views but each year the [attitude] gap between those that hold traditional views, and those that believe men and women are equal is narrowing. One would be hopeful that for new entrants into the workforce, this won't be as much an effect...
Ultimately, however, skeptics say changes in the classroom won't translate to an equal shift in the way real-world business operates. Morici says that Wall Street's compensation structure rewards risky business, and that's at the heart of the problem. "Until the banks are compelled to reform their business practices, training and risk management and ethics at the business-school level isn't going to make a difference," he says. "The business schools train what the banks want...
...College’s administrative structure has been adjusting on a larger scale since 2003. Prior to that point, the College was led by two equal deans—a dean of the College and a Dean of Undergraduate education. That year, then-Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby consolidated the deanships into a single job, which Hammonds inherited...