Word: substandard
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...Harvard faculty is unparalleled—it conducts the finest groundbreaking research that leaves an indelible impact on policy, intellectual progress and subsequent research in myriad fields. Despite its prestige, leadership and pioneering research, however, the faculty are selected through a process that remains uncharacteristically substandard. Tenure for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is currently determined by Ad Hoc committees that base their decision in part on blind letters which ask professors in a field to rank a list of potential candidates—without specifying who is under serious consideration...
...extent of the changes should not be underestimated, and HUDS should be praised for making sweeping alterations to improve its formerly substandard offerings, rather than merely tinkering at the margins. Pasta now comes with a broad range of different sauces, grilled chicken can be ordered from the grill at (almost) every lunch and dinner and George Foreman Grills are available for students to make their own low-fat creations. HUDS staff have pointed out that many of the changes were instituted in response to feedback received from extensive student surveys carried out over the past couple of years...
...fair, Executive Chef of Residential Dining Martin Breslin seems to agree, and has described improving food as “an evolving process.” In that vein, Breslin should respond as soon as possible to students’ concerns that the range of offerings at breakfast is substandard, and that the changes have meant that students in a rush are forced to grab unhealthy pastries instead of a decent range of fresh fruit...
Declaring a school substandard is supposed to make a community eager to improve it. In some areas, though, parents just ignore their school's failing status. "There was no big uproar because only one middle school [in the county] passed, and we didn't stand out," said Denise Kanyuh, president of the PTA at Durant Middle School in Wake County, N.C., which made the state's failing list...
...dorms are really quite substandard these days,” she said...