Word: peering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because federal support is so hard to come by, universities like Columbia and Oregon are quietly abandoning tradition means of securing aid and are turning instead to a new arena of money-raising. They are by passing both the established peer review system and the general budget proceedings and are appealing directly to Congress for funds...
...have a different agenda than the one I've been pursuing," he said Melendez has cited the establishment of a new freshman peer advising system and simplificant council accomplishment of his first term...
...classes and large dining hall-in which we seek out our friends and eye strangers skeptically--that condones or reinforces such shabby behavior. Perhaps the attitude of Harvard students, who tend to guard their own interest above others, accounts for such superfluous incidents of rudeness. Many it's peer pressure on a grand scale: since everyone else yucks it up in the Lamont stacks...
NETWORKING: A council-initiated program to match upperclassmen with freshman dorms will take shape this term. The idea is that a formal set of student "peer advisers" could supplement the academic and other support which resident proctors are supposed to provide. If this spring's experimental program--involving about a dozen upperclassmen each matched to a proctorial unit in the Yard--is successful, the Freshman Dean's Office may expand the program next year...
...A.M.A. makes another suggestion: that the medical community first heal itself, purging incompetent doctors from its ranks. How? By revamping peer- review procedures already in place and using computer systems to detect incompetent doctors, thus enabling hospitals to screen them...