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...Politics and Public Policy. Apart from being a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Schauer has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Though the Eastman Professors are required to give 24 student lectures at Oxford, Schauer’s tenure will not be limited to the classroom. “In addition to teaching, I expect to do a fair amount of work on common law theory, and the university where [Jeremy] Bentham studied will be an ideal place to work.” Schauer is currently completing a visiting professorship at the University of Chicago...
...draw attention to a profession that rarely gets the consideration it deserves. It is ironic that after spending almost two decades as students, so few of us give a second of thought to teaching. Perhaps not all of us are meant to spend our entire lives presiding over the classroom, but I would argue that everyone who makes it to a premier educational institution like Harvard should at least give it a try. Here are my top ten reasons why:10. Unleash your creativity: Teaching doesn’t have to fit the stereotype presented in that classic movie...
...HSA’s business plans and gave us eight hours notice before they went off to launch their competing services. HSA is a non-profit organization created to provide wages to students and to provide interesting business opportunities for students. HSA is not a business; it is a classroom. The 21 remaining HSA student managers feel betrayed and disappointed by their former colleagues. As a student of Harvard you should feel the same—these students hurt a non-profit campus organization so they could make a profit for themselves. The story of what happened at HSA this...
...revised fall term schedule that will allow them to do so. According to a press release on the Lamar website, the fall term will be extended until Dec. 22, and all class periods will be lengthened by five minutes.“We can’t skimp on classroom time and instructional time,” said Paula A. Nichols, an administrator at the Lamar Center for Distance Education. The university also has a student body of approximately 10,000, of which the majority live off-campus; some commute a significant distance. When classes begin on Oct. 19, many...
...memories I can retrieve of nursery school and kindergarten are of afternoon naps after milk (which I didn't like) and cookies (which I did), curled up on a blanket on the floor of a classroom, often in a patch of sunlight coming through a window. It was so easy then to nap and wake up refreshed. I've had to relearn that process in my 60s--without the cookies...