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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the Committee on Graduate Education’s (CGE) legislation to mandate evaluations of all Teaching Fellows (TFs) passed without a whisper of holding the Faculty to the same standard. While the Faculty’s desire to focus the meeting on curricular reform is understandable, it is utterly dismaying that a quick, easy consensus could not be reached on asking professors to be held accountable in the same way TFs will...
...Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Theda Skocpol mentioned when she introduced the CGE’s legislation, the Faculty reached a near consensus last May in support of a comprehensive reform that would have required evaluations for all professors and all TFs. At that meeting, however, a few professors derailed the legislation’s momentum in a quasi-filibuster that caused the bill to be indefinitely tabled...
...While the once innovative industry is struggling to find a new direction, the state's schools have moved into the fast lane of educational reform. "The collapse of the auto industry, which also exploded the notion embedded in the DNA here that you can make a good living despite being a high school dropout, created a perfect storm for convincing everyone we needed to make changes," says Michael Flanagan, Michigan's superintendent of public instruction. For three months last fall a task force of state education officials, school superintendents, college deans and a Ford Motor Company executive pored over scholarly...
...intense public outcry, especially on Chinese Web sites. Three months after Sun's death, the State Council abolished the rules that had allowed police to detain the man in the first place. "The best lawyers have to be media savvy," says Phyllis Chang, an American expert on Chinese legal reform. "It's extremely rare for them to crack anything open without the media...
...women's advocate. "But we have had a few concrete victories." Last year, Guo and her colleagues successfully lobbied to eliminate a regulation forbidding female graduate students from becoming pregnant. "We can't change everything overnight," says scholar Teng Biao. "But even the leaders recognize they must reform the system if they want to resolve societal problems...