Word: oversight
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...better solution would be to encourage professors to teach more and to make greater professor oversight of TFs mandatory. Professors ought to receive additional compensation for teaching above their required number of courses, because currently there is a strong incentive, both in terms of monetary compensation and prestige, for professors to teach as little as possible and to devote their time to research and publishing. As for the oversight of TFs, more sections should be taped, and professors should be expected to review those tapes, meet with TFs and provide written evaluations of their TFs that other professors would have...
...keep him in the loop. If, indeed, the abuses turn out to have been the work of a handful of low-ranking individuals acting outside of orders, Rumsfeld's job is safe. But if it emerges in the coming weeks that the abuses were a systemic failure of oversight - or even the product of orders from Military Intelligence to the jailers to create an "enabling" environment at the prison that would facilitate the extraction of information from detainees under interrogation, as some of the questions Friday suggested - the defense secretary may take the hit from any backlash...
...defense secretary's vulnerability is less on the specific instances, than on the question of oversight. He struggled, for example, to answer questions from Arizona Republican senator John McCain over who was in charge of the interrogation process at Abu Ghraib, and whether they had issued any instructions to the guards that might pertain to treatment of the detainees ahead of interrogations. Oversight issues were also at the center of questions over the handling of complaints from the International Committee for the Red Cross, and how President Bush was informed of the abuses...
...said that the current negotiations should strengthen the University’s dedication to that oversight. Prior to the recent round of negotiations that began in October, a subcommittee was formed in response to the lapse in work security enforcement...
...that trust may be shaken not so much by the photographs themselves, but by what they reveal about the level of oversight in the operations of U.S. forces. For example, two of the interrogators accused of abuses in the Abu Ghraib scandal are so-called "civilian contractors," men hired by private U.S. firms to whom the military has outsourced such sensitive functions as interrogating suspected insurgents. One of the companies named, the Virginia-based CACI, is still advertising jobs for interrogators on its web site, and the job definition specifies that the candidate would work under "moderate supervision." The phrase...