Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Officials at the University of California at Berkeley have created a new board to mediate grievances on sexual harassment, designed to provide students with an informal alternative to filing complaints directly with the administration...
Houses also host visitors from their Eli affiliates. The Botts exchange "football visits" with Master Robin Wink of Dunster's sister College, Berkeley College...
...including copies of letters between Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, Assistant Dean of the College Marlyn M. Lewis '70 and the student victims that had been publicized in The Crimson. Other cases discussed include charges against a sociology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where 13 students complained that the professor had fondled and propositioned them, and explicitly offered one a grade in exchange for sexual favors. Berkeley suspended the professor without pay and he ultimately resigned. The book also mentions an incident at Clark College when in 1980 an assistant professor filed harassment charges against another junior...
...know that they can make considerably more money in industry than in teaching. From 1971 to 1980, the number of math teachers dropped 78% nationwide. Massachusetts universities produced only two graduates last June certified to teach chemistry on the high school level and only two who could teach physics. Berkeley, the proud flagship of the California system, did not graduate a single...
Many computers are used as high-tech flash cards in math and spelling. Scorning such applications, computer scientists argue that students should be "computer literate," and then argue among themselves about what that means. Berkeley Computer Educator Arthur Luehrmann, who coined the term, has defined it as "the ability to do computing and not merely to recognize, identify or be aware of alleged facts about computing." M.I.T. Professor Seymour Papert, author of the influential book Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas, agrees, insisting that all children should be taught to program computers, both for the intellectual exercise...