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...Over the past few years, like most other academic research institutions, we have seen more competition for fewer federal grant dollars,” Emmons wrote in an e-mail. “The landscape is likely to get even more competitive over the coming years...
...meet this goal, the administration should expand the number of Harvard professors who teach such classes. In the past, economics seminars were generally headed by visiting faculty members. When the department’s visitor budget was slashed last year in the name of streamlining costs, there were fewer instructors on campus to teach the seminars. This was cited as a reason for the program’s temporary elimination. Although the department recently experienced an influx of visiting faculty, thanks to a partially restored budget, it should not depend on outside instructors to teach its most intimate courses...
...Board review are also allowed expanded capacity to guide their advisees through Ad Board procedures. In the interest of reducing student anxiety during personal appearances before the Ad Board, such appearances will now take place in front of a much smaller sub-committee of typically six or fewer members (as opposed to the entire Ad Board...
...felt there could be an educational moment [in many academic dishonesty cases] that right now wasn’t being realized,” Sundquist says. “If there are more different responses, we think there will be a lot fewer required withdrawals...
...stores was down too. To Walmart executives and investors, this disturbing trend has to be reversed; despite the earnings growth, Walmart's stock fell 1.1% on the day earnings were announced. "We want to see top-line growth," says Deborah Weinswig, a retail analyst at Citigroup. After all, if fewer customers are spending less in Walmart's stores, there's a whiff of dissatisfaction in the aisles. (See 10 things to buy during the recession...