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...their shoes to make noise when they walked down the street. But this surreal pettiness masked real misery. The ban on work for most women had a disastrous effect on schooling for both sexes, since as many as 70% of all Afghan teachers were women. Excluding them from the classroom meant that boys had few teachers to instruct them...
Beyond the classroom, Wiley’s research in structural biology has won him international acclaim. He and Higgins Professsor of Biochemistry Jack L. Strominger ’46 won the prestigious Japan Prize in 1999 and the Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards in 1995 for progress in understanding the human immune system...
When students choose to attend Harvard, their decision is often based in part on the world-class reputation of the faculty. Yet enormous power over the Harvard classroom experience is normally wielded to the graduate students and other community members who lead discussion sections as teaching fellows. With TFs ranging from the lively and dedicated to the sullen and non-English-speaking, some students feel that the choice of a TF can have even more influence over their overall satisfaction—and grade—than the professor...
...class. At a minimum, candidates who are not native English speakers should be required to posess sufficient proficiency in spoken English to communicate effectively with a room full of anxious undergraduates. At the best university in the world, it is simply unacceptable that some TFs are put into the classroom with only rudimentary English communication skills...
...students can be ineffective teachers, and students should be able to expect that their instructors’ ability has been tested prior to their selection. After being hired, TFs should also receive training so that they can improve their teaching before they ever meet their first student in the classroom. Currently, TFs can attend seminars given at the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, a Faculty of Arts and Sciences-sponsored facility that offers one-on-one training in teaching skills. Because each department sets its own policies for the recruitment and training of TFs, not all TFs are required...