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...Microsoft Research, started in 1991 as the first of its kind corporate computer science research lab, may well be more dynamic than any university computer science department. That's the way Rick Rashid, the senior VP in charge who was a professor at Carnegie Mellon, designed it . "For me basic research has to be first and foremost about moving the state of the art forward in computer science. We publish in peer reviewed journals just like professors so that our research is subject to the same purity of process that a university would have," says Rashid. "It's not about...
...lengthy subtitle—“A Candid Look At How Much Students Learn And Why They Should Be Learning More”—provides a basic outline of Bok’s arguments. Employing recent educational studies and statistics, Bok seeks to quantify the unfulfilled promise of today’s colleges. He expresses his recommended changes in clear, unpretentious prose, but he insists on their urgency...
Later in the book, Bok criticizes the structuring of many curricular reviews. He rejects the easy idealism of many curricular reviews and instead advocates practical, common-sense improvements to the basic structures of undergraduate education...
...presents sobering statistics about student retention rates and urges faculty to consider carefully why specific requirements exist aside from their historic presence or idealized purposes. Should an introductory chemistry class, for example, take the place of coursework that teaches the essentials of basic American citizenship? His point for universities is that simple knowledge of a subject area is not the same as imparting knowledge...
...most basic level, the treaty rewards India despite its poor record over the last several decades—including its first nuclear test in 1974, the detonations that spawned sanctions from the U.S. in 1998, and the fact that they never adhered to the NPT. India became a nuclear power acting alone, failing to join or adhere to a pact aimed at ensuring peaceful nuclear development. Through this agreement, the U.S. is tacitly but effectively aiding India, despite its longstanding defiance of the NPT, to develop a better and stronger military nuclear program. Iran and North Korea could not have...