Word: workload
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...Brainard both emphasized that there is a possibility that some of the eliminated positions would later be reinstated. An “impact study” will be launched in coming months to assess whether Cabot’s current employees will need help in managing the increased workload, according...
...that’s why reading period is a quagmire. Professors assign more readings and research papers during the regular term than they otherwise would, were there less unscheduled time to finish it all. Eliminating reading period from the calendar would also eliminate the onerous work accompanying it. Where workload must be standardized among many different course offerings, as in the Core, this would be particularly effective: Harvard could force professors to get rid of superfluous readings and to choose between a few shorter papers and a single research project...
Under the pressure of five classes and a heavy computer science workload, Joe said he resorted to taking Ritalin last fall—even though he has never been diagnosed with an attention deficit disorder...
...ensure that J-Term classes were of the same standards as term-time classes, and not regarded as a joke, as has been the case at other schools who have the 4-1-4 schedule. Unless required to, few professors would care to shoulder the extra workload of a month-long class, especially if planning it cut into the teaching demands of the Fall semester. Without attracting the quality classes that the true semesters do, a J-Term would likely offer cast-off courses—filling classrooms with dispirited junior professors forced to teach out of career considerations...
...Crimson penalty kill, coordinated by new assistant coach Gene Reilly, was adequate, limiting Brown to 10 shots in 8:41, but the extended special teams workload left several of the Harvard’s key players without enough left in their tanks to mount a third-period comeback...