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...less effective by a lack of integration with the my.harvard.edu course shopping tool—for example, there is no way to get from a Q Guide entry to a course website. Incorporating the Q Guide entirely into the shopping tool could make course ratings more visible and, in turn, make shopping less tedious. The lack of certain other functionalities, such as the ability to search and rank by ratings, is also a common frustration—evidenced by the abundance of student-designed search engines and spreadsheets developed to make finding courses that fit a certain specification easier...
...personalized e-mails to their students and to tailor evaluation questions to their specific classes. This can make students’ lives easier and shows them the real stake that faculty have in evaluations. The best solution, however, would be for the administration to give students real incentives to turn in their evaluations. Withholding grades until students finish their evaluations would be an excellent way of ensuring that few classes see insufficient response rates...
...after the decision drew outrage from students and professors, Reinharz released a second statement Tuesday indicating the board of trustees might keep the collection, but that it would still close the museum and turn the space into a study and research center...
Nursing homes, domestic-violence shelters and alcohol- and drug-treatment centers are closing. "Once these things, these agencies, close, even if you turn the money back on, they don't spring back up," says Radogno. "They're gone, and we're damaging the human services infrastructure in the state." The cash flow at free clinics is drying up. And to make matters worse, the state's credit rating is sinking - and there hasn't been a balanced budget in years. As a result, the state has had to take out emergency loans to cover the deficit, and those payments - amounting...
...stimulus package on the cratering American economy? Actually, the President used a version of the line multiple times during his first week in office - a week that, rather than offering the catharsis of a bright new American morning, summoned the groaning image of a supertanker attempting a U-turn in a tiny Arctic bay. The weather in Washington was cold and cloudy. The President seemed overcast as well, stowing his megawatt smile as he acknowledged one of the more depressing days in U.S. economic history - the day that major companies laid off more than 75,000 employees. I barely...