Word: rigor
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...have been possible without the tireless reporting of contributor Jeremy Caplan, who also worked on the previous two service issues and wrote the final page of this year's, "New Ways to Make a Difference." And it was all ably edited and managed by senior editor Julie Rawe, whose rigor improved the entire issue. That's service...
...emotional price, mentioning offhandedly that a son from a previous marriage quit school and was "trying to find himself." But Chu found his niche in the lab, building state-of-the-art lasers from spare parts to tinker with quarks and "high-Z hydrogen-like ions," preferring the rigor of experiments that either worked or didn't to abstract theoretical physics. At Bell Labs, he spent phone-monopoly money playing with electron spectrometers, gamma rays, polymers and other gee-whiz stuff few of us can understand; he once accidentally discovered an important pulse-propagation effect. But even his most obscure...
...required. For a concentration like psychology, a thesis will eventually require serious research on fickle human subjects. For many concentrations, the thesis is optional, but required if you are seeking honors on your diploma. Right now it seems like a way to prove your academic mettle, a test of rigor, a brilliant idea. Next year when you see the same seniors shuffling down to brain break every night, wearing the same pajamas and desperate expression, it may start to seem like a crazy idea...
...keeps you guys from measuring that? There just isn't any data available. The schools themselves aren't measuring learning. What's the difference between your knowledge when you start as a first-year student and when you graduate? What do you feel about the teachers? What's the rigor of the academic program? How engaged are you on campus? Information like that is just not available from all schools...
...take something mediocre and make it exceptional? Why do some people become great in a world that's full of tremendous volatility, uncertainty and rapid change? That's a human question that we happen to address by looking through business, which we can do because of the rigor of the data...