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...portions,” says Gordon. “The whole is more than the sum of the parts.”Although usually only one professor lectures at a time in a team-taught course, success depends on team communication. “The faculty have to commit to doing this—this is not something where you can be half-hearted about it,” says Lue, who met every week with his Life Sciences 1a teaching partners for nine months to plan out their course. Backstage planning seems to correspond to more shared time...
...proposals to address the dearth of women and minorities in the sciences in two reports released last May.But some professors who have worked on the committees say the task of transforming an institution still reverberating with the aftershocks of Summers’ remarks and resignation awaits a leadership committed to change—not just a hefty check.“As long as we don’t know who the next president will be and what stance the leader will have, it’s a little hard to talk about progress. You really need a leadership that...
...Faculty Room so that the necessary quorum could be attained.) Kirby maintains that students are the focus of this University, but his words sound hollow when so many professors are willing to roast a president who is unequivocally dedicated to undergraduate education while they themselves are unwilling to commit 90 minutes to the same end.In addition to curricular flaws, the Faculty also continued to largely ignore inadequacies in undergraduate teaching this year—problems that, in many ways, are more pervasive and longstanding than those of the curriculum itself. The defects of teaching at Harvard College are well known...
...current plan] definitely reflects [Summers’] priorities,” says Harvard’s chief Allston planner, Kathy A. Spiegelman, who began work as the vice president of Harvard Planning and Real Estate in 1995. “He definitely exercised an influence and made a commitment and as we move forward that influence will definitely persist and be felt.”Deputy Provost for Administration Eric Buehrens, who now meets weekly with University Provost Steven E. Hyman, Bok, and Christopher M. Gordon, the chief operating officer of the Allston development group, says that Summers?...
...invite the International Community to visit the area where the court operates and see for themselves if there are any terrorists elements being harbored or living in this area. We commit ourselves and our clan elders to this position: to be open and honest in order to spare the Somali people the violence and the suffering being perpetrated by the warlords. We have nothing to hide from the international community and we strongly believe that, once they realize what we do and what we have achieved, they will support our initiative and efforts to bring peace and stability to Somalia...