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...Brown’s Office of Institutional Research. More than 85 percent of Brown faculty and graduate students supported the addition of pluses and minuses, according to Brown’s Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning. According to the report, the survey was conducted to address a growing concern among faculty about the “perceived impact of grade inflation on classroom conduct and its erosion of grades as a meaningful measure of learning.” But 70 percent of undergraduate students oppose the change in the grading system, according to a Brown Daily Herald poll taken...
...decades, including the current one––a bounding diversity that might have felt cumbersome without such a focus.More importantly, the persistent interest the artist seems to have for depicting people is evident upon entering the exhibit. Unlike other realist artists, Hockney is not satisfied to concern himself with forms like shapes of noses or proportions of torsos. Rather, his portraits capture essences of the people he paints—subject matter close to the artist, as all the works in “David Hockney Portraits” are of people Hockney knows.The exhibit is organized...
...their high school’s freshman musical, that is. Facebook.com removed the separation between high school and college facebook accounts Monday, allowing students in both groups to send each other friend requests and subsequently view each other’s profiles. The integration of the two accounts raised concerns about privacy from students who prefer to share their college lives with their college friends. The issue of high schoolers viewing their collegiate counterparts’ profiles is a concern for gay and lesbian students who may not be out to people from their high school, according to a Bisexual...
...science, the College experienced “virtually no change in the yield,” Fitzsimmons said.When asked whether the controversy over Summers would deter prospective students, Weary Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatue Judith L. Ryan said, “I think that is something that would concern anybody.”Yet one Harvard hopeful, Clay R. Hane, a senior at Cary Academy in North Carolina, said, “I don’t think it would be a major make or break.”Most commonly in interviews, high school seniors said that regardless...
...President, Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors of the University and such other University officials as the Corporation with the consent of the Overseers may appoint members of the Council.”According to the Statutes, the University Council serves “to consider questions which concern more than one Faculty, and questions of University policy.”But longtime Harvard administrators said they had no recollection of the body ever meeting, and many professors said they had never heard of the University Council. At one point in Harvard history, there was a more active Academic Council...