Word: oversight
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Though the philosophy of the new general education is no doubt important, constructing a better system to ensure the integrity of the individual requirements and courses is perhaps even more vital to its long-term viability. A lack of strong oversight has allowed the current Core to decompose from a tight system guided by a clear rationale into the hodgepodge of specialty courses that it is today. Much of the blame goes to the CSC, which meets infrequently and prioritizes methods of student evaluation over course content when deciding which courses count for Core credit. For instance, the CSC insists...
...Such comprehensive oversight is perhaps the biggest loss the tech crew has faced in the wake of Symonds’ death...
...discretion of a single individual. To that end, the CPC was not adequately consulted in this process, and its members are justified in expressing their frustrations in this regard. Both the seven-member CPC and the three-member subcommittee charged with investigating Shleifer deserved some level of oversight powers in this highly sensitive, and highly publicized, case. The nature of the report submitted to Knowles by the subcommittee should also have been available for review by the CPC. Having some level of transparency in the FAS disciplinary process to accommodate the small, specialized group equipped to handle matters of this...
...group’s letter, signed by three dozen Harvard law students, expressed concern over the Homeland Security Department’s practice of deputizing local and state police officers to enforce immigration law. The letter said this practice, “without adequate training or oversight mechanisms, creates very real dangers of conscious or unconscious racial profiling...
...tree no longer grows on Grant Street. The tree—which stood near Leverett Towers—was cut down yesterday after a report from City of Cambridge arborist Kelly Writer pronounced the tree a danger to public safety, according to Alan Joslin, a member of the Riverside Oversight Committee. “It was decided that by virtue of the condition of the tree, the tree produced a presence of danger and it is to be removed,” Joslin said last night at a meeting of the Riverside Oversight Committee, a watchdog group that advises...