Word: rigorousity
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4. Easy grading in art, literature, and history courses tends to draw lazy students to the humanitites while pushing those eager for a challenge towards the sciences and the social sciences. All areas of inquiry will suffer over the long terms, as students choose their fields according to their personalities...
Many Harvard undergraduates (or, more precisely, their parents) are forking over up to $100,000 in exchange for a prestigious degree, a bunch of good grades, and not much else. Lots of students get by with shoddy work and lots of instructors get by with shoddy teaching. Meanwhile, the administration...
It has long been my (not entirely popular) theory that grade inflation and student discontent with the quality of sections taught by graduate teaching fellows are related phenomena. As I have already stated in print, Harvard's tenured faculty have allowed a situation to develop in which the CUE system...
Across the country, the lawyers who staff big-city public defender offices strike a common note: they get no respect. "Clients figure if we were really good, we'd be out there making big money," says Maria Cavalluzzi, a Los Angeles public defender. In courthouse waiting areas -- known variously as...
The information which was not reported--and which is not required on the new, less rigorous state tax forms--concerns specific details of the high risk investments that are part of the University's more than $5 billion endowment.