Word: reductionism
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The Faculty’s Standing Committee on the Core Program approves a reduction in core requirements for students studying abroad, as part of an effort to encourage students to pursue educational opportunities abroad.
From the decreased number of companies giving out freebies at the College’s annual job fair to a substantial reduction in the amount of recruiting advertisements in The Crimson, signs were everywhere this year that the supply of jobs in consulting, investment banking and technology were well below...
Lewis points to surveys showing increasing student satisfaction with the Houses—the Class of 2002 was the first class to give their Houses an average score over 4 on a 1-to 5-point scale—as evidence that the reduction has had a positive impact.
One uncontroversial success of the change is that the College has been able to create greater gender balance in the Houses. The housing office gives the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, which conducts the lottery, a floor and a ceiling for allowable gender ratios in each House that are...
It's the kind of surgery you would never expect most people with emphysema--a degenerative, often smoking-related condition of the lungs--to agree to undergo. Called lung-volume reduction, the operation is designed to decrease the capacity of the lungs in an attempt to improve their overall efficiency...