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...decision by the University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences to adopt an open-access requirement—the first ever at a university. While the policy mandates that professors provide their scholarly articles to the University’s online repository, professors will able to request a waiver to opt out of the project. The primary arguments in favor of open access for scholarly literature written by faculty and students are both pragmatic and ideological, according to Grant W. Dasher ’09, one of the leaders of the Free Thesis Project. He added that there...
...That request, the election commission's stalling and Zanu-PF's unhurried attitude towards resolving the crisis all seem to indicate Mugabe is playing for time. So, too, do reports quoting diplomats in Harare as saying that Mugabe may issue a presidential decree delaying a run-off between him and Tsvangirai for 90 days. More time would allow Mugabe to mobilize his shock troops-the so-called "veterans" who overran white-owned farms in the late 1990s and early years of this century...
...still even be considered “modern”; Chem 5 lectures were being uploaded in 1998). Yet, fast-forward 10 years, and lecture videotaping is a highly underutilized teaching tool. Most large Harvard classrooms are fully equipped to videotape lectures, a service provided seamlessly at faculty request. Still, many professors choose not to opt in, often arguing that online lecture videos incentivize lower class attendance and abstractly decrease overall learning. But anyone who has sat through a large lecture here knows that “class participation” is usually left to that...
...universities have traditionally predicted applicants’ future college performance. The studies, which were presented at the conference of the American Educational Research Association last week, recommend that universities seriously consider other measurements of predictive performance outside of grade point average and standardized test scores. For example, colleges could request that applicants complete a questionnaire presenting different scenarios that would reveal interpersonal skills and personal discipline, University of Minnesota professor Nathan R. Kuncel proposed in one of the studies. Regarding many colleges’ practice of using interviews, letters of recommendation, and application essays to judge an applicant?...
...their attainment of the ostensibly impossible, to transcend mortality. Perhaps the Masters' success in fostering its own glorious illusion of immortality helps to explain the tournament's enduring popularity. One thinks of the call of the on-course ranger before a golfer hits a shot. At Augusta, the request seems to be directed at the passage of time itself: "Stand still please...