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...point that had antagonized Moussavi's supporters was Ahmadinejad's attack on the candidate's wife. The President said Zahra Rahnavard, who is the first woman in the history of the Islamic Republic to campaign on behalf of her husband, had entered university without sitting the difficult national entry exam. "I'd like to talk about the educational record of a lady you know very well. Should I talk about this lady's record? Should I?" Ahmadinejad had asked threateningly...
There is a bright line, though. And I would guess that Sotomayor crossed it when she agreed in 2008 to toss the results of a promotion exam for the New Haven, Conn., fire department because an insufficient number of minorities passed it. That seems inherently unfair to those who succeeded - including the dyslexic firefighter Frank Ricci, who hired tutors to help him pass and whose name adorns the case. The lack of minority success does not necessarily signify the presence of racial prejudice. The best way to rectify such a situation is to make sure the next test is truer...
...time to develop new classes. Both committee members and professors emphasize that a wider variety of classes can count toward Gen Ed in contrast to the Core—either in terms of departmental alternatives or more novel courses.While Core courses were required to have a midterm and final exam and were not allowed to cap the class size at a small number, plans call for Gen Ed classes to take any number of shapes.To try to help fulfill Gen Ed’s innovative potential, the Gen Ed committee has directed professors to the Provost Fund for Instructional Technology...
...Director. However, Rose says that, at this time, it seems likely that student groups such as the Phillips Brooks House Association and the Institute of Politics will have their requests to stay for next J-Term rejected. But though students will not spend the College’s first exam-free January participating in the programming that the Conley committee envisioned, College administrators have say that formal offerings are still a possibility in the future. “It’s not the case that we’ll never have formal J-Term programming. When the financial crisis...
...wound that the harassment cases had opened. Dominguez, widely considered the department’s foremost expert on Latin American politics, taught Government 2105: “Field Seminar in Comparative Politics,” a class that would be necessary for almost any government student preparing for general exams in that field.Putnam said that the Department assigned him to co-teach the course with Dominguez to minimize the controversy surrounding his continued teaching presence, even as they were unwilling to take disciplinary action against the University’s sole expert in Latin American politics at the time.In...