Word: oversight
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...demands of Black students,” “proposals for courses with a radical perspective,” student requests to participate in Faculty decision making and the administrative response student takeovers of four buildings led many vocal faculty members to call for greater oversight and transparency of decision-making processes...
...says deans have never followed the 1969-72 regulations requiring that the Faculty Council “exercise a general oversight over the committee structure of the Faculty [and] serve as an advisory body on decanal [dean’s] and committee appointments and will advise the Dean and the Faculty on allocations of space, building programs, and plans and priorities for Faculty growth and development...
...table, and even tried to end-run him on the committee he chaired. He wasn't invited to a routine Rose Garden ceremony for a Vermonter named Teacher of the Year, and was reportedly denied his ration of West Wing tour passes. If it was just an oversight (their explanation), they hardly look like management geniuses. If it was a ham-handed snub (everyone else's explanation), it showed how petty they could...
Although some oversight is helpful, especially for medical or government-mandated information, I think this basic approach is wrong. Let's go back to the first principle: people have different preferences and sensitivities about the use of their personal information. Many like free content and well-targeted marketing offers. So why not let the market work? Let websites disclose their practices in an intelligible way and then let consumers choose...
...table, and even tried to end-run him on the committee he chaired. He wasn't invited to a routine Rose Garden ceremony for a Vermonter named Teacher of the Year, and was reportedly denied his ration of West Wing tour passes. If it was just an oversight (their explanation), they hardly look like management geniuses. If it was a ham-handed snub (everyone else's explanation), it showed how petty they could...