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jets of matter emitted from the core of one of the galaxies -- is even more farfetched...
These are not new words from a university president announcing the appointment of a new coach. Stressing the importance of academic achievement at a press conference is easy, but Thomas has made a commitment to improved education at Alabama with higher admission standards, the introduction of a core curriculum and a recruiting program--not for football prospects, but for better faculty...
...important failing, as Mr. Rowe mentions, is the problem of training. In the History Department, for example, there is no formal training of TFs in even the rudiments of teaching, let alone teaching in the Core. We are encouraged to attend an annual workshop, and periodically we receive pertinent mailings (the new Teaching Fellows Handbook was mailed at mid-semester), and the situation in this department is common to many. Most TFs tend to compensate by devoting unusual amounts of time to preparation, usually at the expense of the research for which we have come...
Another important failing which must be acknowledged is student attitudes. Many students consider the Core a list of requirements which must be satisfied, as simply as that. Still others consider the whole program a joke. One student I know heard about a Core course offered this spring and said, "It sounds good, but I've already taken my History." And another student who was in a Core section I taught was allowed to pass his final exam--at the professor's insistence--having written a D answer to one question and having left the other two required questions blank...
...same time, most of us will have to acknowledge that the Core probably succeeds as often as it fails, and that experience will vary with individual students, teaching fellows, and professors. Any failures will be similarly complex, but it is fairly easy to see the roots of these in intertwined institutional shortcomings rather than merely personal ones. Paul Bohlmann Teaching Fellow in History