Word: proctoring
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When he was CEO of Proctor & Gamble, John Pepper was one of several chief execs forced to disrupt its chummy corporate culture. As the newly appointed nonexecutive chairman of the Walt Disney Co., he may aim to keep things calm. A shareholder revolt forced the board to remove CEO Michael Eisner as chairman in 2004 and opt for a nonexec chair. Although Pepper lacks media experience, A.G. Edwards analyst Michael Kupinski says Disney will benefit from Pepper's global-branding background as it expands worldwide. With shares up 30% since October, Disney's shareholders have been as quiet...
...with his colleagues at the Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO). Mancall’s successor at the FDO, William Cooper ’94, was appointed the new resident dean of Ivy Yard late last month. Cooper previously worked in the Financial Aid Office and as a proctor in the Yard, according to Gross. Mancall is not the only FDO administrator to be offered a position in the APO. Former Associate Dean of Freshmen Rory A. W. Browne left for Boston College’s new advising center last month after turning down an offer to become...
...agenda. The path mapped out by the student-faculty committee’s report, which would expand the peer advising system’s academic counseling role, was the “direction [the prefect leadership] wanted to see itself go,” says Lindsay C. Page, the proctor-adviser to the prefects. The program’s student leaders understood that they “would lose some of their autonomy,” Page adds.Two years ago, the Prefect Program board submitted a proposal asking for more training on academic advising, says board member Haining Gouinlock...
...says a lot about his character and passion for undergraduate education. One anecdote, however, speaks louder than all of my visits to Mass. Hall. In late October, I fell sick on a week when I had several papers due. Not wanting to bother Larry, I went to my proctor, who suggested I ask my freshmen dean for extensions on my papers, but informed me that I had to get Larry’s approval to do so. I gingerly called his office and talked to his secretary, who said he was very busy that day but that she would...
...English,” a course on the history and literature of Ireland, Applied Math 110, and Visual and Environmental Studies 40, a studio class in design. A LIFE-LONG DEVOTIONUpon her graduation from the College, Worth went to work for the Harvard Admissions Office and became a freshman proctor.“I knew I wouldn’t have been admitted to Harvard had it not been for the persistence of my admissions officer, and I wanted to give back to the institution that had given me so much,” she explains.After receiving her masters...