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Steven C. Wofsy, professor of atmospheric and environmental science, presented a proposal at yesterday’s Faculty Council meeting that would reform the way professors receive principle investigator rights. The 18-member governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences discussed the change that would transfer the authority to give these rights from the Committee on Research and Policy to the divisional deans. Principle investigator rights allow professors to submit research proposals and then oversee the research. “[University administrators] have a strong interest in making sure that those submitting these proposals are qualified...
...disparate as home school and public school, private and magnet, charter and international. The SAT plays much too large a role in today’s admissions process for it to be eliminated entirely. The recent findings should serve as a springboard for further research and inquiry into reforming the SAT or, should that fail, replacing it with an entirely new test.Despite whatever inconvenience it entails, over 750 colleges and universities nationwide have moved to eliminate standardized test scores from consideration in their admission processes. For schools that have sufficient monetary resources and staff support to enable such an endeavor...
...Health Alliance’s operations that will not be touched is the Integrated Clerkship program, the hospital-training program launched in 2004 as part of the Harvard Medical School curriculum reform, according to Judith Klickstein, one of the organization’s senior vice presidents...
...strategic planning comes at a time when the Health Alliance is facing financial woes stemming largely from the number of uninsured patients it has been treating in the months following the enactment of Massachusetts’ health care reform act last year. The hospital system has already cut back on discretionary spending, such as travel costs, and is halfway through laying off roughly 300 workers—nine percent of its staff, according to Health Alliance spokesperson Doug M. Bailey...
...time to transform the way of thinking, to repair the system." Beijing-based China scholar Russell Leigh Moses isn't optimistic that will happen anytime soon. The problem is "not so much political or structural as psychological. The top leadership can't get over their anxiety that any structural reform will mean the end of one-party rule," Moses says. "They are more and more out of step with the public, and even though there's still room for them to maneuver on this, these events accumulate and the wiggle room gets narrower and narrower." At some point, saying sorry...