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...Test program “will undergo significant reforms” next semester, including reducing the number of graders, enhancing channels for feedback, and rewarding grading performance with monetary bonuses. Wei said that the reduction in the number of test graders was not financially motivated. Although there will be fewer graders, Wei said the move actually will be “cost-neutral” since each grader will be required to work more hours, leaving the total number of paid hours constant. He estimated that the program will hire about 50 students this upcoming fall, a drop from...
...said APO Assistant Dean Inge-Lise Ameer. Rinere said she did not know how the College might replace her or how the office might be restructured in her absence. “We’re going to try to maintain the same high quality with fewer resources,” she said. “The students will be an integral part of the decision-making going forward and that’s what will enable the office to do what it does with less,” Rinere added. —Staff writer Danielle J. Kolin...
...With the average section increasing in size, there will be fewer sections overall, which will translate into fewer teaching positions...
...works since the beginning of this academic year, according to UHS Director David S. Rosenthal ’59, who cited underusage—rather than fiscal considerations—as the primary motivation behind the decision. “Anonymous testing has been great, but every year, fewer and fewer people get the testing,” Rosenthal said, adding that Harvard is one of the last Ivy League schools to continue both testing standards. Next academic year, the hospital will shift from offering both confidential and anonymous testing to exclusively providing confidential screenings. Students who receive confidential testing...
...repayment pay higher interest rates, while good, creditworthy customers don't have to pay as much. Plus, they say, now is exactly the wrong time to relegislate the lending process. Owing to the credit crunch and soaring default rates, card issuers are already reeling in credit limits and accepting fewer new applications. "There are two ways of managing risk - for a particular borrower and across a portfolio," Ken Clayton of the American Bankers Association recently explained. "If risk-based pricing changes, lenders will have no choice but to contract credit...