Word: cue
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) yesterday specifically endorsed three recommendations of the Faculty's Task Force Report on Pedagogical Improvement asking for the permanent establishment of a teaching center, the training of teaching fellows, and self-evaluations of departmental programs and courses...
...CUE endorsed the report's recommendations at the encouragement of the Educational Resources Group (ERG), an all-student advisory group to the CUE. Members of the ERG fear the Faculty, which heard the report at its last meeting, may ignore some of the report's recommendations, CUE members said yesterday...
...Faculty legislation imposes such limits, but this legislation--which requires that no more than 30 per cent of tutorials be taught be teaching fellows and no less than 30 per cent be taught by full-time faculty--has been ignored and unenforced since the date of its passage. A CUE study illustrates how flagrantly the departments are violating the Faculty legislation: during the 1976-77 academic year, teaching fellows taught over 95 per cent of the sophmore tutorials in Economics, English, Government, History and Psychology and Social Relations Departments. Although the CUE study indicates that a greater number of professors...
...sure, the CUE needs to devise new, more realistic limits on the number of graduate students teaching tutorials. More importantly, however, the Faculty should take measures to insure that departments take such limits seriously...
...PROPOSALS outlined by Bowersock are indeed worthy of careful consideration by CUE and the Faculty. If Harvard wants to maintain its reputation as an institution of learning, it must not neglect the foundation of the University-- the College. Creating greater interaction among professors and students will unquestionably improve the undergraduate program. The Faculty should not delay in passing and enforcing the several reform proposals now being refined by Bowersock and the CUE...