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Graduate students and junior faculty members may find themselves with fewer opportunities to hone their teaching skills next year, as the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning struggles to adjust to a 40 percent cut in its budget...
Among the Bok Center's best-known programs are its teaching conferences for junior faculty members and TFs held in August and September. Michael Frazer, an assistant professor who arrived in the government department in 2007, called the programs "incredibly helpful" and said they allowed participants to become familiar with each other and with teaching at the University...
...South Korea donated large amounts of fertilizer and food to its much poorer Northern brethren. "What we're unhappy with is the fact that even if we send them aid, they don't use it for their people and instead spend everything on buying weapons," complains Kim Chang Bok, a 76-year-old retiree. "Seeing what they've done, I don't think we need to send aid." Even South Koreans who would like to see their government change its policy and provide financial support to the North still don't want to return to the old "sunshine policy" days...
...allowed to cap the class size at a small number, plans call for Gen Ed classes to take any number of shapes.To try to help fulfill Gen Ed’s innovative potential, the Gen Ed committee has directed professors to the Provost Fund for Instructional Technology and the Bok Center to help give them guidance and funding, according to Kenen. A few Gen Ed classes are trying to draw students in with different pedagogical techniques, including a greater use of technology. East Asian Studies professor Shigehisa Kuriyama ’77 put a three-minute course trailer online...
...Visiting Emily Dickinson’s home in western Massachusetts.These were among the program ideas suggested by a 2005 committee to fill a new three-week January term left open by a 2004 proposal to create one University-wide calendar, a schedule later adopted by Interim University President Derek Bok in 2007 for implementation in the 2009-2010 academic year.But four years later, these opportunities remain unrealized. Instead, the College’s first J-Term next winter will feature limited housing for select individuals, encouraging students to explore off-campus options and to use the period for rest...