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Reaccreditation is a voluntary process in which universities and colleges demonstrate to the public that they meet the standards in areas like academic programs and financial resources. Harvard, which had its last comprehensive review in 1997, undergoes the peer-review process every decade...
...papers that criticize the case for man-made global warming; Jones wrote that he and his colleagues would be sure to keep the papers out of consideration for the forthcoming climate assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), "even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature...
Maternal condescension only really took hold in the modern age, when we turned parenting into a profession with its own implicit peer-review boards and competitive frenzy. Rather than uniting to promote a culture that would make parenting easier for everyone, we have wasted a huge amount of energy and airspace on fighting among ourselves over what constitutes the perfect balance between head and heart and work and home. "I avoid old friends on Facebook," reads the post on Truemomconfessions.com "because when I compare my life to theirs, I am so ashamed of where...
Tenure at Harvard requires, above all else, copious publication. The peer-review process in scholarly journals and university presses subjects one’s work to harsh criticism by one’s intellectual rivals and demands punctilious caution in the handling of evidence and logic. The best way to guarantee success is to choose a specialty where mastering the entire literature is feasible and where one has few rivals. Such pursuit of expertise can generate finely tuned knowledge, but it can also generate territorialism and stifle debate. For example, another faculty resident in Leverett House in 1997-98 (when...
...examine what we do,” Seltzer said. “It’s a useful exercise.” The University—which had its last comprehensive review in the fall of 1997, then submitted an interim report in 2003—undergoes the voluntary, peer-review process of accreditation every decade by NEASC, one of six regional accrediting organizations in the U.S. In addition to the University’s overall accreditation, most of the professional and graduate schools undergo individual accreditation procedures by their respective review bodies. —Staff writer Esther...