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Last month, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby approved a pilot fund of $100,000 to support faculty-led projects allowing for undergraduate experience abroad, which was recommended by the CEA in its April report, according to Coatsworth...
Coatsworth calls the amount given to the fund a “small number but not insignificant,” and says that if the pilot goes well, investment in it might increase...
...shorter enlistments may not be enough to attract students if the adventure still means combat in Iraq. The Army had "disappointing" results when it tried out its 15-month enlistment option in a pilot program over the past two years in 10 cities, said Major General Michael Rochelle, head of the Army Recruiting Command. He insists it was because the program wasn't advertised broadly. But even an aggressive marketing campaign by no means guarantees compensating for the shortfall of 6,600 enlistees so far this year, with next year looking not much better. Rochelle says the military is facing...
Departments that used online evaluations in a pilot program last semester “had some of the highest response rates,” Chadbourne said...
...Fairfield, Conn., the brother of a Princeton-grad investment banker and a son of a media executive, he was drawn to military life because he wanted something more than just a good job. He originally had his heart set on going into the Navy to become a fighter pilot, but when he visited West Point, he fell in love with its emphasis on the basic relationship of leader to soldier, its elemental emphasis on men, not machinery. He didn't focus on just the dreamier ideals. The minutiae of leadership and the daily self-assessment--Am I doing enough...