Word: rigors
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...would not take no for an answer. He resisted the committee’s suggestions to tweak Ec10, either by giving it more of a focus on current events or historical context to fit the “United States in the World” category, or more mathematical rigor in order to make it fall under “Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning,” according to Li. Although Mankiw declined an interview request for this article, he wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson in April 2008 that the Task Force on General Education...
...three to four years, with an additional $3 billion in debt, according to Moody’s Investors Services. But even before markets began to plunge and Harvard announced a 22 percent decline in the endowment for the four months ending Oct. 31, Faust was reportedly uneasy about the rigor of Harvard’s financial planning for its Allston expansion, according to one faculty member closely connected to University officials. While she was generally knowledgeable about the framework and programmatic elements of the Allston expansion from her time as dean of the Radcliffe Institute, Faust may not have been...
...Great Books track within Gen Ed called further attention to this problem. The prevalence of grade inflation and the existence of trendy but “soft” disciplines in the humanities and social sciences continue to portend trouble to those concerned with Harvard’s intellectual rigor...
...journalism community and the New York Times in general.” But Blier insisted that the award rightfully honors Cotter’s contributions to the art world. “It says that the arts he covers are worthy of and indeed demand a sort of intellectual rigor and a provocative in-depth analysis that he brings to bear on them,” she said...
...Harvard prides itself on the opportunities it provides its students, and that should include the chance to go and learn in any part of the world. While there is much to be said for academic rigor, the challenges of living in a new place, learning new languages, and seeing the world in a new light pushes students to learn and grow outside of the classroom. At the end of the day, there is more to an education than combing through dusty tomes. Indeed, to widen our horizons, we may have to look beyond Widener—beyond even Harvard?...