Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charged days of the late '60s. While almost all agree that the ension once so prevalent on campus has dissipated, many professors--though by no means all--say they feel that contact between faculty and students has suffered, particularly on an informal basis. While formal relations, centering on the classroom, have been largely restored to normal, they feel, more personal communication, especially interaction in the Houses, will suffer from the divisions traceable to the occupation of University Hall...
WALTHAM--Between 30 and 40 students took over an office and classroom building at Brandeis University yesterday in an attempt to force the Brandeis' administration to consider their demands that cutbacks in next year's budget be rescinded...
Doctoral Students. The exchange was set up by Detzel, 29, and Bob Lewis, 34, former doctoral students at Northwestern University, who wanted to find new ways for talented people to teach outside a traditional classroom. Still dependent on grants, they are moving toward financial independence by selling memberships for $15 a year...
...same time, those mathematical works that do find their way into discussions in or out of the classroom are being accepted too uncritically. The massive reevaluative scholarship on slavery, summarized in Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery by Robert William Fogel (who will teach at Harvard beginning next year) and Stanley Engerman, is now the single best-known work of quantitative history. The book is published in two volumes--the first presents the conclusions, while the second, more technical volume explains how the authors got there. Much of the second volume cannot be understood without advanced...
There can be little doubt as you report in "Learning Less" [March 31] that students are performing at much lower levels than a decade ago. I object, however, to your conclusion "It is clear that the cure lies in the classroom...