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...adds that her office oversees dozens of studies using data on student enrollment and grades. For example, Herschbach's office is currently studying how long graduate students in various departments take to get degrees. "We are trying to track the lives of graduate students," she says...
Nearly two years after a surge of student activism prompted an internal review of hiring practices, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this fall will finally get down to the nuts and bolts of improving its affirmative action efforts...
...council brought the affirmative action effort more in line with the current administrative setup of FAS, and its revisions left student activists predicting more frustration in the future about the University's inability to diversify its faculty...
...Last year we were aware of what was going on," says Virginia L. Mackay-Smith, assistant dean of first-year students. "We were concerned about what this was going to mean for a student's academic progress. We decided to do things that we hope will make it easier for freshmen--and a little more straightforward...
...review of the Core Curriculum--issued last May at its 10-year anniversary--found a main problem with the QRR to be its "extracurricular" status. Because there is no required coursework unless a student is unable to pass the two exams, undergraduates tend to "focus their attention on passing the tests rather than learning the material," the report concluded...