Word: program
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know any of their names or not. "He admitted that the Wall Street Journal reporter had asked him the identical question and, when pressed further. Hokanson conceded that a lot of the complaining students were first-year students (Hokanson is in the second year of the two-year MBA program) and that he recognized them by sight but did not know them by name. Nevertheless, he felt that those whose names he did know deserved the protection of anonymity...
...discharge his functions effectively unless he enjoys the confidence of his Faculty and the support of the President and the Governing Boards. His constant challenge is to build a consensus to which both will subscribe: his dilemmas arise when the consensus breaks down. If he adheres to a program in which he believes, but which is not supported by the majority of his Faculty. he faces a continuing crisis of confidence. If he bows to the opposition and becomes the administrator of policies which he does not really support, his service as Dean is bound to become increasingly frustrating...
There is also no guarantee that the government will continue its subsidy program, so the entire project could become "moderate" income housing...
...proper description. May is in the group. He joined Kennedy's Academic Advisory Council in 1963 and until this summer headed a faculty seminar in the Institute of Politics on the art and practice of bureaucracy. Since the summer he has resigned as director of the student seminar program, but he remains an untitled officer of the Institute. You can sometimes tell a man's polities from the company his car keeps. May still has a parking space in the Institute driveway...
...case student restlessness. May is planning a curriculum reform project over the year with advisory committees in each House and Department. He plans to circulate, "if you'll pardon the Washington bar-room term, a series of program packages." May says that past innovations, like Gen-Ed and tutorials, have not been completely successful because they were considered piece-meal. "Tutorial as it operates now bears no resemblance to tutorial as we envisioned it. There were a series of economic compromises all along the line. May proposes to look at the curriculum on a larger scale, allowing consideration of more...