Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This team didn't have the talent of the past four or five teams," Harvard Assistant men's Coach John Anz said "but they worked hard all year to get at the level of past teams...
...accessibility of senior faculty and the quality of student advising are other significant concerns of the accreditation report. The reviewers perceive "a level of interaction between senior faculty and students that seems lower than might be expected in a situation of such academic plenty...
...gratified that Harvard declares its expectation that undergraduates demonstrate or reach a level of competence in quantitative reasoning. This sends an important signal to the rest of the academic world. Unfortunately, however, the current quantitative reasoning test offers no guarantee that the students have a meaningful level of manipulative skills, much less an understanding of quantitative and logical reasoning and the essence of mathematics as a discipline. The omission of mathematics itself from the Core, strange though this may appear, need not be fatal if some other adequate provision is made for students outside of the sciences to acquire mathematics...
...significant recommendations or decisions. The perception extends to the Faculty Council, with which we met. Such vital faculty responsibilities as the creation of new courses, the formation and substance of the concentrations and the developments of instructional approaches and modes seem to be addressed extensively at the department level without full understanding of the impact on other departments and programs. Moreover, the process and criteria for assigning faculty positions and fellowships, determining workload (or other conditions of employment), sabbatical policy and like matters seem to be unduly mysterious, leading to unhealthy suspicion and cynicism...
...those who are ever-ready to rail against elitism in the university. Universities are eliti institutions, at least insofar as they operate on the meritocratic principle. What needs to be guarded against in the great universities is a more insidiousism, aristocratism. Like it or not, universities are at some level credential factories. They serve as a springboard for middle and lower-class individuals not only to live with and befriend those of the privileged classes--which is at least as important for the sake of the latter--but also to join them, eventually, in running this country...