Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University," she says. "Research grants create an intellectual atmosphere and bring new fun's in. Good teachers create an intellectual atmosphere too, but they don't bring new funds in." Krupnick finds, however, that belief in the tradeoff is disappearing as good teaching ability looms larger as a criterion for employment at many universities, if not at Harvard. Besides, Krupnick says, people here value teaching ability more than is rumored. "I have never heard anyone say, 'Oh, he's nothing but a good teacher...
...University, the challenge is to understand that maintenance of the present social system depends as much on the nature of leadership in oppressed groups as on leadership in formal institutions and establish procedures to identify the most promising young people. To recognize that criterion used to evaluate advantaged students may obscure the talents of a student who has grown up under oppressive conditions does not lower standards or make exceptions. It acknowledges that different criterion are needed for students from different conditions and allows Harvard to admit and train outstanding young people from all strata of society...
...first time Adams introduces contemporary humans into his fiction. In a preface he distinguishes the ones who are "pleasant" from those who are "unpleasant." This criterion is useful when planning a dinner party but not quite up to the demands of a lengthy novel...
...criterion that shows most clearly Harvard feels this is the land of the rich and white is the so-called "objective" admissions criterion Harvard uses. We have been constantly told how important the Scholastic Achievement Tests are for minority students. A large part of the admissions office effort for Third World students is based on a search list that includes Third World students who have done well on the PSATs. The SAT is specifically designed to test the "average" students, i.e., the average middle class white student. Clearly, not many Third World students fall within that definition of an average...
...would expect the teacher recommendations, another important subjective criterion, to give some insight into the performance of Third World students. Here also the Third World is shortchanged. The teacher cannot possibly give a good and informative recommendation for a student when he barely knows the students. This is inevitable when the teacher is trying to effectively teach 50 or more students. In addition to this, the typical situation is that many teachers do not sympathize with, understand, or have confidence in the aspirations of their Third World students--largely because most of those teachers are white...