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When it failed, the Core Curriculum did so not because of students, professors, or the administration, but because of the weakness of its philosophy. The different ways of learning at first sounded quite appealing as a path out of lackluster academia, but like all academic fads ended up replacing orthodox restrictions with restrictions that were even more whimsical and limiting. Classes that didn’t state in their syllabus the goal of making a student a Science B-ian or a Moral Reasoning-itian couldn’t were cast...
...surprised by his or her CUE scores at the end of the semester, because evaluation will be an on-going practice. With the growing importance of teaching portfolios for TFs, the ability to avoid recording low scores will be of great pragmatic value in the competitive world of academia. This is only in addition to the enormous personal value in improving one’s teaching, among the primary goals of most Harvard graduate students. Finally, the teaching hotline empowers faculty members by providing previously unavailable information about sections within their courses, enabling greater control of the quality of each...
...responsibilities to society, and what are our responsibilities to the larger world,” according to Co-Director of the series Steve Lin ’08. During his address, Lewis spoke about the desire in many institutions of higher learning to overcome instances of past discrimination in academia and the professional world by encouraging students to explore fields outside of those prescribed previously by gender, ethnicity, or race. But Lewis said that the hope of achieving this goal may sometimes stand at odds with attempts to respect and support the desired path of each individual student...
...extended Faust “a warm welcome,” but urged her to “expand her vision and incorporate the views of a community that is much more diverse and listen to all students, not merely those that are traditionally represented at Radcliffe, in the academia, and inside University Hall...
...woman in what has become the hot seat of higher education, Faust will have to cope with the legacy of former University President Lawrence H. Summers, who sparked a faculty firestorm over the place of women in academia when he suggested in 2005 that “intrinsic aptitude” might account for the scarcity of women on elite science faculties...