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Knickmeyer had worked as a reporter in West Africa until 2005, and in her five years in the area, she was able to make only one trip to the Congo...
...make a plan. Now is the time for teamwork, especially if you’re moving from the Yard to the River or—gasp!—the Quad. Keep track of the storage schedule (all of the hours are during the day, so you’ll have to reform your vampiric ways). Figure out who in your rooming group is available to move things when, so no one is left with one hour and seven heavy boxes between the end of exams and flight home...
...yesterday’s meeting, the Faculty passed the proposal to make three-hour examinations at the end of the semester opt-in rather than opt-out for course leaders. Currently, the Office of the Registrar’s default assumption is that all professors will give exams at the close of a course, unless a professor specifically petitions the Registrar to do otherwise, according to Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris, who spearheaded the proposal...
Harris said that the new policy, which will no longer make exams the default form of final assessment in courses, is not an endorsement of the recent move away from offering three-hour exams. Rather, the changes are motivated by the desire to streamline the process of devising the exam schedule, he said...
...joint statement represents an effort by the Union and the University to make the negotiating process as transparent and as engaging for our members and members of the community as we can, while at the same time protecting the process with some confidentiality,” Jaeger said...