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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...
...this year, the B-School faculty decided that the unusually hard workload was becoming counterproductive and that the ever-increasing assignments were getting out of hand. Over the past 20 years, a faculty study found, there had been an 82 percent increase in the amount of reading required of first year students...
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...
Dean of students Archie C. Epps III, whose workload dips when there are no students around, said he plans to finish Yukio Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy along with some Hugh Trevor-Roper history of 17th century England. For others he proposes reading...