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...advising, enhance training in basic skills, and sharpen the preparation of teaching fellows. Rather than pepper departments with disconnected demands from separate University Hall offices, FAS must ensure that department leaders have real-time information and flexible resources. Starting next year, FAS should give multi-year grants to allow departments to plan and execute coordinated curricular enrichments, and then provide ongoing support for changes that truly enhance student learning...
...departments. The existing Core Curriculum has been much resented by students and faculty, because new courses are approved through a vast spider-like apparatus of committees, and existing courses are rarely reviewed. To carry out the new general education system as well as other promised reforms, we should allow maximum space for pedagogical creativity. Rather than tell all course heads they need to follow set formats—for exams, assignments, course scheduling, sections, and so forth—why not ask periodically for evidence that instructional goals are clear and that students are learning and finding the course worthwhile...
...course formats for fear of not employing enough TFs; and graduate students do not develop a full range of pedagogical skills. As reform proceeds, the College and the Graduate School must encourage additional, more flexible deployment of teaching fellows, not to substitute for faculty engagement with undergraduates, but to allow TFs to partner with faculty in seminars that combine lectures and discussions, to help design course materials and “hands-on” learning environments, and to support courses with improved technologies. Departments, in turn, should be allowed to spend teaching fellow budgets flexibly and creatively...
...history is any guide, no one should be surprised at the counteroffensive, which is sure to focus on broadening concealed weapons laws that allow Americans to carry guns beyond their homes or cars. That is precisely what happened in Texas 15 years ago after an unemployed merchant seaman crashed his truck into a Killeen cafeteria, took out his gun and killed 23 in what until Monday was the deadliest mass shooting in American history...
...Hinckner words are now echoing around the web, highlighted on gun rights websites and in e-mails, including one Texas State Senator Glenn Hegar received Tuesday morning. Hegar, a Houston-area Republican, is the author of a bill that would allow Texans with concealed weapons permits to leave their guns in their cars at work - something many employers now forbid. The bill is moving through the state legislature and, despite the opposition of the influential Texas Association of Business, may pass thanks to support from another major player, the powerful National Rifle Association (NRA). "There are two types of people...