Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past 12 years, Cheryl Amirault LeFave has searched for someone who can convince the state's courts that she was convicted and imprisoned for a crime she maintains she did not commit...
...readings are expected and to be able to purchase them. The Coop wants to provide the correct number of books at the best cost to avoid the Internet competition and the angry, frustrated students in line worked up about the bitter end of shopping freedom and the need to commit...
Maybe the whole problem is the need to commit. And so I propose the following for renewed, serious consideration: non-binding course pre-registration. If Harvard is unwilling to join the realm of the logically-scheduled semester schools, it can at least do us this favor...
...latest-possible-moment arrival of the course catalog is caused in part by an inability of the Faculty to commit and commit early enough to their courses for the following year. By not even providing the titles early enough, students have no idea what classes actually will be offered in the fall. I was pleased to see that the Web course catalog I dutifully downloaded in August had Web links for every course--though, despite the cheery "syllabus" icon on the second page, the overwhelming majority led nowhere. In my experience professors sometimes don't even have a syllabus completed...
...most dramatic, if far-fetched, changes could come in how and why students pick courses. If students could see the syllabi ahead of time, they might actively contact the professors and find out how a course will work. Without the need to commit the next day or face a fine, students and professors alike might be more open to questioning choices of emphasis and asking what is feasible or of interest. They could e-mail professors or go to their office hours far ahead of a seminar or conference course and find out if the class will be a match...