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...Education Department’s unspecified accountability proposals for higher education might make it seem that President Bush is trying to improve higher education. But if his proposal for accountability is used to cut funds from schools that rank poorly, he will do no such thing. If Bush wanted to truly help American higher education, he could increase federal spending on state schools—especially at a time when state governors are being forced to cut university funding due to the slowing economy. To increase Americans’ access to education, Bush could ask Congress to spend more money...
Democrats and Republicans in Congress should recognize that the budgetary and spending practices of public universities are already transparent—their budgets are a matter of public record. Further centralization of state school budgets on the federal level would be wasteful—the bureaucracy needed to rank and quantify “Institutional Report Cards” distracts resources from more worthy efforts to improve education...
...analogies exploring the relationships between husband and wife, master and servant, and torturer and victim. The play then asks if these relationships are fundamentally all the same. As the first scene opens, a single figure, a very angry Orlando (Jared M. Greene ’03), laments his low rank in the army of some unknown Latin American country. He blames his sex drive for most of his troubles and vows to change...
...landscape is still shifting as retailers try to track consumer behavior. Here's a twist: while mega-portals attract boatloads of shoppers--Yahoo, MSN and AOL (owned by the same corporate parent as TIME) rank among the 10 most visited shopping sites, according to ComScore Media Metrix--consumers don't usually think of them as shopping sites, notes Carrie Johnson, e-commerce analyst at Forrester Research. In fact, Web users often land in a portal's shopping area by accident, attracted by an ad that appears as they are using e-mail or checking sports scores. While reading about Tiger...
...computerize the TF hiring process. Centralizing the job search will allow professors and TFs to find one another much more easily. Standardizing the process would better enable TFs to apply “conditionally” for multiple positions at the same time—allowing them to rank preferences and get the best teaching job they...