Word: rigor
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Discipline is high up on the president’s agenda as well. One of the most contested changes that Zhang instituted in1992 was a 20-day military training stint, mandatory for all first-year students and designed to instill in them the rigor and perseverance Zhang believed they needed for an indispensable filmmaking enterprise. In the second year, students are dispatched to farms and factories throughout the country for a “rural experience...
While the faculty is no longer divided along ideological lines, questions about relationships with the practice of law, internationalization and the rigor of HLS’ curriculum remain...
After one student asked about the lack of difficulty in quantitative reasoning and science Cores, Gross—who co-teaches Quantitative Reasoning 28, “The Magic of Numbers”—dismissed the notion that that the courses lack rigor...
...hard to trace how these situations arise across campus: Harvard professors are recruited from other schools on the basis of academic rigor and achievement. Those not hand-plucked after brilliant articles and Nobel-winning volumes struggle to gain tenure, a process of political correctness and thousands of pages of academic writing. Not teaching ability...
...Alessandro’s plan would preserve the Intensive Studies Program curriculum, a popular alternative for students who desire a greater degree of academic rigor. The program will be relocated to one of the merged schools, but it will not be eliminated—giving Cambridge’s parents a greater degree of choice in their children’s education and providing a strong alternative to private schools...