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...think already the fact that the Faculty has spent so much time looking at curriculum has been a plus—when [the Gen Ed report] gets announced, I think that will be enormously helpful to us in recruiting,” he said. “The fact that we now officially have a school of engineering, and really exciting plans for growth…has certainly caught people’s attention...
...less than 10, according to Iraqi police. But truck bombs in a Shi'ite section of the northern city of Tal Afar earlier in the week sparked a gruesome round of reprisals that saw local police officers executing some 70 Sunnis men in the town. Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, said in a statement Friday that the recent spike in bombings is part of an al-Qaeda in Iraq strategy to reignite sectarian violence and "undermine recent Iraqi and Coalition successes in improving security in Baghdad...
...press conference last week, Gen. David Petraeus, the new U.S. commander in Iraq, was asked if the Mahdi Army might have a legitimate role in protecting Shi'ite gatherings. Petraeus seemed to suggest that such a solution might eventually be acceptable to the U.S. "You know, many of... the coalition countries have a variety of auxiliary police or other functions," Petraeus said guardedly. "The challenge, of course, is that some of these organizations have participated in true excesses, and they have been responsible, some of them, some the extremist elements of them - and I think that the challenge has been...
...Lisa Boes, a research officer of the Activity-Based Learning Project, states that the ideas of the initiative are not set in stone. “My understanding of the language of the Gen Ed proposal is that it is just a start,” she says...
...noted the occasional inadequacies of faculty advisers.“I think one thing that can be a problem is that faculty cannot always be the best advisers,” she said. “If you start asking a history professor how to meet your requirements for...Gen Ed, you might never graduate.”At the end of the night, Faust, currently the dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, summed up a concern she had heard frequently.“We’ve come at it in different directions, but clearly faculty-student...