Word: majors
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...confront all the 1000 or so unionized Harvard employees, and they are hardly ever solved at the bargaining table. The police union has yet to meet to discuss the demands they will present Harvard when their contract expires December 31, but job security will undoubtedly be one of their major bargaining points. In the last nine years the number of uniformed policemen has declined from 60 to 41 as the force has taken on a more administrative and computer-oriented style...
...Core report instructs professors that their Core courses should not just present a set of facts but must provide a "basic literacy in major forms of intellectual discourse." Tatar says she prefers to avoid such inflated prose and is unsure how such notions apply to the humanities, or for that matter what intellectual discourse even means. But she believes she may have unintentionally conformed to the report's exhortation by "familiarizing students with two methodologies: historical and literary." Tatar shrugs. "I always thought the point of education in general was to teach people to think critically. If you want...
Finally, the Core report asks that the Social Analysis offerings "suggest the value questions or options that are implicit in the analysis." Wilson believes that this mandate to search for the values under theories is one of the major strengths of the Core, because it forces professors to focus their courses on "the philosophical implications, not just the facts...
Ackerman is joined by Claire Malardi, head of the Harvard-Radcliffe dance program, who sees the lack of course credit as a major drawback in the dance program. "Because the kids don't get credit for what they do in the studio, it inevitably takes backseat to their graded classes," she says. "Time and energy-wise, the teacher is up against a real battle." Still, Malardi praises the dance program and the students for their dedication and admits that one benefit of the no credit policy is the near-total absence of pressure and competition. In the long run, however...
...very quick to predict, however, what will happen to them. "We believe in this concept," says Churchill, a major admission from an officer of a corporation that last year mailed every state legislator more than 100 pages of anti-disclosure arguments. "We think this bill is much too sweeping, though," she says, quickly, and then grumbles through a list of the bill's weaknesses. "Who is covered? We may have to disclose this for everyone applying to a New York state school, and that would make our problems huge. What do we have to send? A xeroxed copy of every...