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However, for an eight-week program designed to generate revenue for the University, the teaching is taken very seriously. To the summer faculty, this is a microcosm of Harvard life. Exams are meant to be studied for. Classes will not be skipped (rather, too many classes will not be skipped). The teachers at the summer program are enthusiastic and learned, engaging in class discussions and presenting the information, as they do during the regular school year. No teacher treats their post as a counselor at summer camp...
...This is a microcosm of the academic planning process," says David A. Zewinski, senior vice president for property operations and construction...
Harvard provides a microcosm of Asian divisiveness with the AAA, KSA, and CSA, Each of these associations is extremely political, resulting in scattered muted voices speaking for the Asian community at Harvard...
Fiorino said Eliot is "a friendly place" and added that house ran-domization insures all houses are a microcosm of the entire student body...
What the White House group discovered was that the space-station project was a microcosm of all of NASA. The members found that the venture was bogged down with layer upon layer of unnecessary management and lacked centralized decision making. They came to see the nine NASA centers around the country as little fiefdoms, each adding its own complications to projects. There were difficulties with contractors and terrible problems with cost control. In fact, the FBI was -- and still is -- conducting a major investigation into widespread corruption involving NASA and its contractors. Finally, a memo went to the President...