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...open access” whereby the authors could make their work available either on a personal or university Web site for free, according to Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, who serves on the council. Professors would have the option to opt out of the new system, Ryan said. “The problem this is supposed to address is the increasing monopoly that has developed on the part of scholarly journals, who are now making it increasingly difficult for people to access the material they publish,” she said. “Libraries...
...form of a midterm or other assignment, before the five weeks have expired. Students—especially freshmen trying to gauge their aptitude for various subjects at the college level—should have some tangible indication of their status in a course in time for them to opt to drop without penalty. Moreover, the College should change its policy of charging a fee for changing courses between the third and fifth weeks so that there is no economic disincentive, however small, to try a new and challenging course, but also to withdraw from an overly onerous one. Though some...
...when department-store popularity is declining?as shoppers opt for selective, less-time-consuming specialty stores or fashion discounters?Baker has made it his mission to reinvigorate the 181-year-old chain by keeping it small: he will downsize the New York City flagship store and continue with a tightly edited merchandise mix tailored to East Coast suburban families at all the stores. Jane Elfers, Lord & Taylor's CEO for the past seven years, has been quietly restructuring the brand away from the store your grandmother loves into a showcase for top American design talent. And the business-savvy Baker...
According to Sanford Kreisberg, an independent admissions consultant at HBSguru.com, the program’s true value for HBS will be ensuring that stellar students don’t opt for a JD instead...
...think there is potential within schools to make this no longer opt-in, but mandatory, but that would be more of a school decision,” she said...