Word: revamping
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...mandates, while clear conveyers of goals, are hazy indicators of implementation. What is the best way to improve undergraduate education? The prevailing sentiment assumes the answer lies with structural reforms: Hire more Faculty, increase the number of freshman seminars, improve concentration advising, provide more research opportunities, loosen course requirements, revamp the Core, hire teaching fellows who can speak English, et cetera...
...committee continued giving Fineberg the benefit of the doubt. His interviews had gone very well, and he had successfully pitched the committee on his plans to revamp the College. He had given his entire life to Harvard, teaching, administration and fund-raising. It seemed only natural progression for him to succeed to Mass. Hall. But, alas, as the ultimate insider, there was nothing Fineberg could do to create a “wow” factor for the University...
...These are problems that require more than administrative ingenuity. While Lewis had carte blanche to revamp PBHA and the House system and needed only to weather student opinion, seemingly immovable obstacles stood in his way this past year--insufficient funds, an intransigent Faculty and the physical limits of Harvard itself...
...Administrators freely admit that the MAC is a decrepit waste of space, and Lewis thinks he might be able to revamp the ailing gym and provide some student groups with much needed office and meeting space at the same time...
...After a high-tech revamp, the Victorian-style former farmhouse is jam-packed with technology, including voice-activated light switches and computerised climate controls, that brings domestic living into the future...