Word: curriculums
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...folks. For a time, a church basement served as a center for the area's 400 retired, sometimes ailing, senior citizens. But the place was hard for many to get to, and its facilities were limited. Harbor Springs High School, though, had room, as well as a varied curriculum. So earlier this year Community Schools Director Robert Doan made a proposition: Why not bring older people to the school? As he puts it: "Why should a community build an expensive, isolated senior citizens' center when it is possible to use a multimillion-dollar complex staffed by professionals...
Women also maintain that the Business School curriculum and case system of instruction sometimes perpetuates negative female stereotypes. Despite Schubert's assurance that "there is a conscious effort to develop cases where women are not excluded," the vast majority of them still either ignore female participation completely or present women in roles of limited authority. Women students see an unquestionable need for more frequent references to top-level women so "that when you see the word manager you don't automatically think of the pronoun...
...CORE CURRICULUM stands a chance of degenerating into a collection of aging, uninspired courses that appear in the catalogue every year only because they were there the year before. But if the new curriculum does not meet expectations, Faculty members and students working on the program won't be solely to blame. Rather, the pride and stubbornness of professors teaching in the Core could turn the program into a clone of its predecessor, General Education...
Some who stay for a fourth year use it for "curriculum experimentation," dabbling in areas outside their concentration, while others "really work on a thesis," Davis said...
...combat any delusions of grandeur his young politicos may shelter, Untermeyer's curriculum focuses on the more mundane routes to establishing a political career--moving into a community, securing a job that allows both the flexibility to run for office and the pay to support such an effort, and establishing oneself with local party structures and civic leaders...