Word: core
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ryan said that it can be difficult for faculty members to keep pace with the rapidly advancing field of digital resources, and suggested that the Core office and department heads remind faculty members to check Harvard’s resources before copyright fees are paid...
...heavily subsidized massages and haircuts all help, but there also has to be enough creative work to go around. Google came up with a formula to help ensure this. Every employee is meant to divide his or her time in three parts: 70% devoted to Google's core businesses, search and advertising; 20% on pursuits related to the core; and 10% on far-out ideas. The San Francisco wi-fi initiative resulted from someone's 10% time; so did Google Talk, a free system for instant and voice messaging. If Google ever builds that space elevator, it will no doubt...
...back to the middle of sophomore year in order to allow students to “sample more courses and fields” and “make better-informed choices.” There is much that is right in the curricular review, including suggestions to replace the Core Curriculum with distribution requirements and to implement broad foundational courses. But as faculty of the Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) wrote last week, the current proposal to push back the concentration choice deadline is misguided, and for more reasons than the DEAS faculty delineated...
...situation has not improved. Today, American politics still lacks a core community of faculty members...
...meetings that I attended (and I attended most of them).”Summers eventually withdrew from the committee last spring after professors strongly criticized his interference in Faculty affairs.But even now that the Gen Ed committee has released its final report, which calls for abolishing the Core Curriculum in favor of a set of broad distribution requirements, Summers is said to remain disappointed with the review’s outcome.“The curricular review is far and away the greatest failure of Kirby’s tenure, in Summers’ mind,” said...