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...General Education system is a breath of fresh air complete with new courses and more flexibility, or a reincarnation of the Core. The new dean will also have to quickly decide how to go forward with the pedagogical reforms encouraged by the recently released “Compact to Enhance Teaching and Learning at Harvard.” Faust has already taken steps on the long and winding road toward picking her FAS dean-to-be. She is reconvening a faculty committee formed last year to advise Interim President Derek C. Bok in the search for an interim dean...
...weeks ago an agreement between the two major party nominees that would limit their fundraising and campaign expenditures (this was, however, before the Hollywood fundraising battle). While Obama has opted out of public financing, he hopes to return private donations if he wins the nomination and a compact is signed. Obama believes that he needs to accept private donations to remain competitive in the primary, but that he would like to preserve the public system, “now in danger of collapse” (his words...
...Late last month, California Assemblyman Jim Levine introduced the bill, which would ban traditional incandescent bulbs from California by 2012. The goal is to force Californians to replace their scalding-hot, energy-wasting bulbs with more efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs). You might’ve seen these new bulbs: they look like a fluorescent tube-shaped bulb curled up into a small coil about the size of, well, a light bulb. (As I look up from my computer, I’m happy to report that the chandeliers in the Adams House library are all using CFLs...
...classes so that professors are held accountable for the quality of their teaching. Students also deserve to see feedback from their peers when choosing courses.Fortunately, reforms relating to CUE evaluations are already on the Faculty’s docket in the form of the “Compact to Improve Teaching and Learning at Harvard” released last month by the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development. The UC should take advantage of the Task Force’s report in pushing additional reforms to CUE evaluations.A second key goal should be to move January exams to December...
...position—is paternalistic. If top-notch PhDs want to focus on teaching, Harvard should let them do so. And Harvard should go one step further by giving these teachers a hand in crafting curricula and requirements, a privilege currently reserved for full faculty.The proposed “Compact to Enhance Teaching and Learning at Harvard” has given us new hope that the Faculty will renew its effort to improve teaching. Its implementation must now become a top priority of the entire Faculty, a reoriented Task Force, and the administration, lest that hope be squandered...