Word: journals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Sources: Washington Post; AP (2); Washington Post; AGI; New York Times; Chicago Sun-Times; Reno Gazette-Journal...
...says History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74. Though evaluations of scholarship and teaching are central to tenure decisions across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, administrators say the definition of scholarship varies by department. In economics and science, scholars develop their reputations by publishing journal articles, while monographs are more important for historians, according to recently arrived Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Brian W. Casey, who advises departments on the hiring process. “An important principle still abides, which is that the process is profoundly peer-reviewed....Articles that are in peer-reviewed journals...
...persistence of behavioral and developmental differences between males and females.” The gender gap started growing at liberal arts colleges in the 1990s. Experts say that men preferred larger colleges or engineering and business programs not available at liberal arts colleges, according to insidehighered.com, an online education journal. More recently though, the gender gap has spread to larger universities, such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where females comprise 58 percent of the class of 2009. Even at Harvard, females overtook males for the first time in the number of admitted students to the Class...
...testified about being "on the battlefront" in the final months of Enron before it collapsed under a pile of debt in 2001. Lay blamed Enron's collapse largely on his former CFO Andy Fastow and described a witchhunt to destroy the company led by Wall Street Journal reporters and short sellers...
...them out they actually work,” says Penny Q. Fang ’08. Students like Ecaterina R. Burton ’08 agree. “I’ve gleaned the most benefit from keeping a gratitude journal, where every day I write down things that fill me with gratitude for being alive,” Burton writes in an e-mail. Others, like Allen A. T. Ewal ’06-’07 have found a little more inner peace through in-section meditation. “Before the section, hearing the word...