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None of the administrators or students, of course, can pinpoint with accuracy what nationwide trend or particular high school experience leads more women than men to focus on the humanities??even while studying science—and more men to stick to strict scientific disciplines. What the students can describe is what it feels like to be the only girl in a room full of 20 eager-to-please male organic chemistry students. “I would inevitably be the only woman there,” says Yao Liu ’04, a chemistry concentrator...
...College-wide level, the Education Policy Committee (EPC)—a group comprised of Faculty from the social sciences, natural sciences and humanities??should be strengthened so it can continuously monitor departments to ensure that College-wide standards are enforced clearly and uniformly. This interdepartmental body should make recommendations about grading policies to the departments. Its recommendations, as well as department-wide and course-specific grading information, should be made public. This will force departments and professors to adhere to high standards and to justify their grades. To accomplish this goal, of course, the EPC must...
...Ellison also wants to speed graduate students up. Students doing research projects—especially those in the humanities??need to be engaged more quickly, he said. Their degrees take one to two years longer than their peers’ at other schools...
Gutmann’s credentials are in the humanities??one reason Tilghman said she was the perfect candidate...
...increases came largely in the humanities??including six new seminars given by members of the Department of English and American Languages and Literatures...