1.15.2004
DFP: Grade Deflation Problem at Boston University
While some schools, like Harvard or Princeton, are suffering from grade inflation, over at Boston University, students are having problems with grade deflation: "Boston University students say grade deflation - the administrative reaction to years of grade inflation - has become a major problem at the university, and many say its effects have already touched them..."
SEE ALSO: A search committee and a search firm has been appointed to find a new Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences dean: "Before winter recess, Berkey said BU hired executive search service Korn/Ferry International to aid in the search, according to School of Public Health Dean Robert Meenan, who is serving as committee chair..."
Korn/Ferry is, of course, the same company that is currently helping the University of Massachusetts find a president after William M. Bulger was forced to step down.
Here is a peice that consultant hired to do the job did a while back, "Career Opportunities For Senior Health Care Executives."
Coverage of Boston Mayor Thomas Menino's State of the City.
The unions who protested the mayor's address must compromise, says the DFP editorial.
Another editorial praises the other Dr. Dean, the presidential candidate's wife: "But though some have criticized Steinberg's decision to stay out of the campaign limelight, she should be commended for providing a living example of the way in which many families now operate across America. Judith Steinberg Dean is a great role model for millions of American girls and women who want to be their own women - not just people who live through their husbands' successes..."
Coincidentally, there's also an article of women passing men in number of applications to medical school.
SEE ALSO: A search committee and a search firm has been appointed to find a new Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences dean: "Before winter recess, Berkey said BU hired executive search service Korn/Ferry International to aid in the search, according to School of Public Health Dean Robert Meenan, who is serving as committee chair..."
Korn/Ferry is, of course, the same company that is currently helping the University of Massachusetts find a president after William M. Bulger was forced to step down.
Here is a peice that consultant hired to do the job did a while back, "Career Opportunities For Senior Health Care Executives."
Coverage of Boston Mayor Thomas Menino's State of the City.
The unions who protested the mayor's address must compromise, says the DFP editorial.
Another editorial praises the other Dr. Dean, the presidential candidate's wife: "But though some have criticized Steinberg's decision to stay out of the campaign limelight, she should be commended for providing a living example of the way in which many families now operate across America. Judith Steinberg Dean is a great role model for millions of American girls and women who want to be their own women - not just people who live through their husbands' successes..."
Coincidentally, there's also an article of women passing men in number of applications to medical school.
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