Word: firmness
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...Radcliffe chapter prides itself on looking more holistically at students. Indeed, the current election system allows professors who know students well to make informed, nuanced recommendations. However, the new rules give this power to the directors of studies, who may not know each candidate well enough to have a firm basis for judgment...
Meanwhile, Brown's new spin-off will absorb Motorola's $3 billion in debt. But the split also means his charge will be able to keep the strong cash flow. "We will reinvest some of that money in expanded innovation, and we can consider ways to grow the firm organically or potentially through acquisitions," Brown says. "It will also be easier to attract world-class talent to a world-class firm rather than one in transition." Perhaps two heads will prove, after all, to be better than...
...currently a co-managing partner of the law firm WilmerHale, one of the nation’s most prestigious law firms, and managed the 2004 merger of the Boston firm Hale and Dorr and the Washington-based Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering...
...this manner takes away from the education that students are receiving, as there is considerable value in having teaching assistants who experience the class and then evaluate students accordingly. This allows the graders to take into account dynamics in the course that otherwise would be missed by an international firm. Furthermore, outsourced grading strictly limits the range and scope of the papers being considered. Companies that grade papers remotely likely rely on an outline from the professor, listing points that should be covered in the assignment. Papers should be graded with a more holistic view, to encourage a diversity...
...addition to the general concerns about this trend in outsourcing, we have further doubts about the specific firm used by the University of Houston professor in question. While the company, based in Virginia, asserts that all of its “assessors,” or graders, hold master’s degrees and must pass written exams before they are employed, it refused to give specific information on the graders’ educational backgrounds. The firm insists that “the proof is in the pudding” when it comes to the success of their assessors...