Word: program
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...options seem clear enough. Allow departmental classes to count toward Core areas--specifically, allow selected courses in the history, language and anthropology departments count toward Foreign Cultures. Remove the foreign-language courses from the Core Program's coddling; they will survive as long as they can count. Turn those resources toward course on Africa, Australia, the Pacific Islands and the indigenous and non-English cultures in North America. Make these changes now, for next year...
...voice-mail message. The initial excitement faded into administrative nightmare: "I had no recourse but to lottery my class," Rentschler said. He explained that the nature of the course material requires access to the film archives. The class was also handicapped by another Harvard shortcoming: no film studies program, so few qualified teaching fellows. "I really had to be very, very careful and vigilant about finding people who would be qualified to teach a film course," Rentschler said...
...final question--about what the Core Program should do to make Foreign Cultures classes go smoothly for students and Faculty--Professor Rentschler said, "I don't have an answer altogether...
...says much of his role now on campus is an advisory one--making him and his experience a ready resource to less seasoned administrators like Coordinator of Student Affairs Susan T. Cooke , Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth '71 and Coordinator of Transfer and Visiting Students Program Julia...
Marketed as a Valentine's Day present to tax-obsessed lovers, the bill would close the marriage gap for those who currently suffer from it by increasing the standard deduction for two-earner households and raising the payments to married couples under the Earned Income Tax Credit, a worthy program that supports the working poor. However, the bill would also move many well-off married couples from the 28-percent to the 15-percent tax bracket, regardless of whether they were affected by the marriage penalty or not. As a result, according to the research group Citizens for Tax Justice...