Word: oversight
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Grade inflation must be fought at its roots with a two-pronged approach—defining clear standards in each course and establishing oversight to ensure those standards are maintained...
Therefore, we believe that reducing grade inflation can only be accomplished through a coordinated Faculty-wide effort to reassess and clarify Harvard’s standards. These standards should be based both on accumulating knowledge in a subject and reasoning critically about that knowledge. Along with higher standards, oversight is key to ensuring that professors and TFs are consistently adhering to those standards...
According to Emily R. Murphy ’02, last year’s EWC treasurer, it would be nearly impossible for such a theft to go undetected now. An oversight committee regularly audits EWC’s finances...
Illingworth says that in deciding on oversight policies, he wants to avoid a heavy-handed approach...
...year’s Best Actor awards between them; I’d expect that all three will be nominated for their work. The typically prophetic Screen Actors Guild (SAG) failed to nominate Hackman for The Royal Tenenbaums, but I don’t think that their oversight dims his chances terribly. Along the same lines, Bedroom’s Tom Wilkinson received no Globe nomination, but his recognition record is otherwise sterling, and his chances for an Oscar nomination look excellent. I think that Penn, whose role as a mentally retarded parent is pure Oscar bait, will sneak...