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...also believe that feedback and formal instruction in oral communication are effective ways to help students become more confident and compelling speakers. Admittedly, many students have the chance to practice their oratory in section discussions and extracurricular activities. But without specific focus on these skills within the curriculum, practice does not necessarily translate into progress. Those students who are already comfortable speaking tend to speak up while those who are uncomfortable stay silent. By formally integrating the oral component, Expos would help more students learn an essential life skill...
...more effective ways to engender curricular continuity could be achieved through better coordination with concentrations—although we believe the onus should be on the writing program to adapt more so than the concentrations. The report recommends that “concentrations make instruction and feedback on written and oral communication an integral part of the concentration program”—a worthy objective, especially since tutorials, which tend to focus on written and oral instruction, are among students’ premier academic experiences. But not all concentrations, especially engineering and hard sciences, can afford to create...
Each department that has been granted permission to conduct a search develops a short list of five or six candidates. Departments then send “blind letters” to 15 or 20 scholars outside Harvard who work in the field of the tenure candidates to request feedback on their qualifications. The letters also ask the outside reviewers to alert the department to any female or minority candidates whom they might have overlooked, Tompkins said...
OSAPR has yet to formally establish a system by which students can register feedback about its services...
...Foods scene in a few of its 2,500 stores by adding in-store chefs, gourmet meals and upscale wines. Likewise, Safeway, which is making a huge push into quality perishables in general and prepared foods in particular, is doing so with new woodlike floors and softer lighting. "The feedback we're getting from consumers is that it's just a less stressful place to be," Burd says of the new look...