Word: focusing
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...Harvard next year cites this enthusiastic environment as a primary reason behind his joining the B-School faculty. J. Gregory Dees, a fellow in the Ethics and the Professions program, says that although he favors expanding the required module to a full semester course, the school's new focus has impressed him as a "modest first step...
...these requests have each been addressed in depth by the newly appointed dean despite the earlier criticisms of him. Clark says a main focus of his education reform will be an attempt to improve the quality of the school's training by increasing students' exposure to professors...
...recent years, the focus of his scholarshiphas increasingly shifted toward issues of socialand political equality in capitalist systems. Twoof the three books he has published since 1985have the word "equality" in the title, includingEquality in America: The View From the Top,which he co-authored...
Wilson: Well, Matina is a scholar in avery relevant field. I am not a scholar of thesame kind. I have tried to do as much writing andthinking as I could, but it has more of aninstitutional focus...I think Matina and I havemany things in common and some real differences. Iwill draw very deeply on her knowledge but I won'ttry to replicate...
...here the disagreement over the means and ends of a pluralist community comes to a sharp focus. Like the battle between the cultural right and left, with the literary or historical canon somehow held ransom between the two, the question over minority hiring seems to revolve around the perceived "lowering of standards" needed to diversify the faculty. Just who sets--and who judges--the standards of course is the most difficult question of all to answer. In a pluralist society, what are the certainties...