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...without a driving thesis to unite the disparate recommendations and with the report’s release mired in controversy surrounding the review process, the administration has thus far failed to garner much faculty support—a necessary ingredient to any successful overhaul of undergraduate education...
...Terenzio, who covered four wars for ABC News, thought offering in-depth coverage of the mainland in the U.S. had promise, given China's growing economic importance. "Cable operators should salivate to carry the only channel dedicated to China," he says. But the news program needed a major overhaul. Soon after he took the job, Terenzio installed a satellite dish atop his Los Angeles home and pointed it at the CCTV satellite so that he could assess the task at hand...
...such a thorough overhaul of the old test weren’t stressful enough for college applicants, college admissions committees aren’t being consistent on what they will accept from the high school class of 2006—will scores from either the old or the new test be ok or will applicants have to take the test over after the new exam comes out? Harvard recently determined that it would only accept the new exam from the applicant Class of 2006, but this is the wrong decision. Harvard should accept both the old and new SAT exam...
Moving thousands of records from the old paper system to the database required months of grind work. Computer systems had to undergo thousands of dollars worth of updates in order to be compliant with new software. And, most frighteningly for international administrators nationwide, schools had to undertake this overhaul on a very tight schedule...
...million a year, but employees at headquarters came up with the idea of reverse auctioning on the Internet and saved $600,000 by buying them in Asia. Of all the changes in operating methods, some of the most productive have come in aircraft maintenance. Workers on MD-80 heavy overhauls realized they could reuse perfectly good windows, light bulbs and fasteners on the plane's outer skin without compromising safety. They saved $30,000 on each overhaul--trimming at least $5 million a year. Shop-floor workers in Tulsa, Okla., taking lean-manufacturing tips from a Toyota sensei, or master...