Word: expectancies
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...skills, rather than a subjective number of credits earned or courses taken, that qualify a candidate to receive a degree in a particular field. In effect, one program advocate told The New York Times, “If you’re majoring in chemistry, here is what I expect you to learn in terms of laboratory skills, theoretical knowledge, applications, the intersection of chemistry with other sciences, and broader questions of environment and forensics.” The goal, it appears, is to give students, universities, and employers a greater degree of comparability and quality assurance across institutions that...
...Raised by liberal parents in the Bay Area, Breaus said he knew he wasn’t homophobic. But having to kiss a guy challenged his self-conception in ways he didn’t expect. “I would have a visceral reaction where it just didn’t feel good,” he said...
...performers through the OFA Dance Program. It connects deeply to scholars in the Music Department. “In short, it demonstrates the creative power and insight that this university can bring to bear when unique resources in various pockets of the campus reach out, connect and collaborate. I expect that there will be much more of this type of thing in years to come.”For those curious enough to venture outside of the Yard, a weeklong Boston-wide Ballets Russes festival running from May 16 through 23 will include a concert by the Boston Pops, exhibitions...
...particular thought about the penal system,” Ragin says. “There is a huge range of emotions in the play.”“The more rehearsals we do, we see humor come alive in places that you wouldn’t expect. It doesn’t feel stagnant—we try to reinterpret the monologues,” Ayers adds. “We even tried to say a certain word with different inflections, and even those slight changes made a huge change.”The main objective...
...Leaders at the U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference denounced the decision, calling it "morally wrong." And a Vatican bioethics official criticized it as "a victory of politics over ethics." But what White House advisers didn't expect was the pained anger in the reactions of far more moderate Catholics. An editorial in the liberal Catholic magazine Commonweal accused Obama of "obfuscat[ing] the moral dilemma by resorting to imprecise talk about the supposedly self-evident authority of scientific 'facts' and the alleged ideological agenda of those opposed to embryonic-stem-cell research." At the website Beliefnet.com, religion writer David Gibson labeled...