Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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University officials have a lock on the "smiling gamely and not worrying" award, judging by their reaction to the first set of results from last spring's major survey of undergraduate life at the College...
...least one person thought it was a good idea. President Bok, who initiated the survey, said when it was released in April he hoped it would help "quantify" the quality of American higher education for the first time. Keen observers may have linked Bok's intentions to a report published last fall by the Carnegie Foundation--the same group which spurred the broadest post-Second World War reform of secondary education through its report "A Nation At Risk: Crisis in America's High Schools...
...survey, which was released in the November 28 issue of Business Week, put Harvard behind Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management and ahead of, in order, the business schools of Dartmouth, the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell...
...survey sample was designed to find out "how well the schools are serving their two markets: students and their ultimate employers," according to the article accompanying the poll results. Business Week offices could not be reached yesterday...
...School students interviewed yesterday called the survey unimportant, and some dubbed it "laughable...