Word: rosenzweig
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hillel Forum: Prof. Hilary Putnam, on Frans Rosenzweig...
Actress Debra Eisenstadt, who is currently performing in The Sisters Rosenzweig at the Schubert, likes the flowers. She said, "It was amazing how human they seemed--how connected to what we are." but she serendipitously wandered into the MCZ and was soon hooked by the archeology exhibits...
...answerable only to a Ministry of Education, which sets academic standards and distributes money. While centralization ensures that all students are equipped with roughly the same resources and perform at roughly the same level, it also discourages experimentation. "When they make mistakes, they make big ones," says Robert Rosenzweig, president of the Association of American Universities. "They set a system in wrong directions, and it's like steering a supertanker...
Smaller colleges are particularly attractive to foreign students because they are likely to offer direct contact with professors. "We have one of the few systems in the world where students are actually expected to go to class," says Rosenzweig. With the exception of Britain, where much of the teaching takes place in one-on-one tutorials, European students rarely come into direct contact with professors until they reach graduate-level studies. Even lectures are optional in Europe, since students are graded solely on examinations, with no eye to class attendance or participation. In Japan students are expected to ingest their...
...state, federal and private sources of funds dry up and bills from the fast-spending '80s come due, even the most elite colleges find themselves facing a financial crunch that promises to reshape the contours of higher education. "Now they have to pay for their prosperity," says Robert Rosenzweig, president of the Association of American Universities in Washington. "It is the morning after...