Word: programer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Later, in a ceremony on Winthrop Square--where the town was founded--Cambridge Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 called the city's economic future bright and credited the city's rent control program with helping to preserve diversity...
Colonel Thomas M. Phillips, who heads the program, is even more excited by the fast growth. "In just a few short weeks, Minuteman Tech met and surpassed all viability criteria, and the future of the program seems assured," he wrote in a school newsletter...
...there are bright streaks of dawn; "it is refreshing to see this program, to see Minuteman Tech providing more air force support than any other school in the metropolitan Boston area," he says. "You are taking part in a great citizenship program," he adds. To commemorate the patriotic tendencies of the youth assembled behind him, Ullrich awards Minuteman Tech principal Ron Fitzgerald a flag that was flown not only over the Capitol, but also over a southwestern Air Force Base, where it was in the "honored position" while a flyby of T-38s passed over...
What happened? As with anything new, the uniqueness of the Core faded after a while, and enthusiasm about it waned. Faculty members who were excited by the Core hopped on the bandwagon at the beginning, and those who were not seized by the euphoria of the program--the majority, it seems--remained complacently in their departments. To use Rosovsky's terminology, a good number of professors met the Core's "challenge" that first year, but many more were either too lazy or uninterested to pay attention...
Many faculty members working on the Core, including Rosovsky, insist that the target figures for the number of courses in the program were never etched in stone. But almost everyone involved in the implementation process agrees that the Core must offer more classes to provide an adequate range of choices. At this point in the program's development--almost half way--the professors who find themselves attracted to it are already teaching or planning Core courses. That means that to produce more courses, the Core subcommittees--on whose shoulders that responsibility rests--must alter their modus operandi...