This isn't about one program over another, but about a system for determining excellence that is antithetic to the goals of the institutions of higher education.
And that has nothing to do with the B.C.S. What's on trial here is the apparatus for determining athletic excellence.
This leaves the issue of how to define a high-volume and good-outcome center, and here published results from the experience of Wouters et al. and others, along with data from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program and other national databases such as that maintained by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, will begin to set a benchmark that can be used to determine centers of excellence.
Further, given that we must not only act, but act excellently or virtuously, it falls to the ethical theorist to determine what virtue or excellence consists in with respect to the individual human virtues, including, for instance, courage and practical intelligence.
"Conference, this is the choice: between a Conservative party determined to preserve excellence for those who have it and a Labour government committed to open up excellence and opportunity for all".
Her parents shielded her from Birmingham's pervasive racism, she writes, "by imposing high expectations and a determined insistence on excellence".
The extent to which the artist is capable of transcending his/her more or less involuntary particularities, i.e. the extent to which his/her unconscious choices seem to derive from a higher instance (consciously choosing the highest degree of excellence) determines the difference between style and mannerism.
The highest expectations on me were the ones I placed on myself: determined to achieve excellence at school.
CUP OF EXCELLENCE A competition to determine the best coffee bean grown in a particular nation.
The Folio prize will go to the book the judges – headed by poet Lavinia Greenlaw – determine best fulfils its criterion of excellence.
