Word: workload
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the changes entail reduction in class meetings and reading, officials were quick to point out that the Masters of Business Administration program would not be easier. "These changes have been misinterpreted," said Piper. "We're not reducing the workload...
Professor John Kotter, chairman of the committee that studied the second year programs agreed, saying the B-School's workload would remain for above that of most other MBA programs. "We haven't made it easy," he said early this spring. "We've changed it from impossible to hard...
...report states that "A heavy work week... is consistent with the development of certain attitude and capacities that are useful in subsequent careers." But it goes on to say that "the present workload given its routinized and controlled nature is exhausting and encourages a survival mentality...
...least some B-School students agree that the workload changes will be beneficial and are much needed. "We had to go through a political minefield to get here," Vytas Kiselius, a second year student and member of the RCS said this spring. "Students now feel the workload and the pressure are counterproductive," he added...
Before the Medical faculty approved the changes last January, first and second year students expressed their disapproval of the plan in an informal referendum. They charged that the new curriculum particularly the increased clinical workload would but back on the freedom of choice enjoyed by previous classes. At first faculty members were outwardly sympathetic towards the students, allowing them to air their views at meetings of the student-faculty curriculum committee. Yet the final outcome suggests that the concerns of the first two classes - who will be the only current students affected by the changes had little impact...