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Rebecca D. O’Brien’s comment about what’s wrong with sections (“Awkward Silences,” Dec. 16) is welcome because there should be more discussion about this issue at Harvard. Nothing in the curricular review would improve a Harvard education more than measures to reduce the size of sections and improve the training of teaching fellows (TFs). Her observations that TFs must be skilled and focused are surely right...
...footnote to this story is that, if students are less than involved in their sections, they are decidedly apathetic about the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review. Hopefully the College administration will take the steps necessary to resuscitate the discussion section, so that our new curriculum isn’t lost on students—and their pristine, 400-page coursepacks...
...with all its resources, would be able to put together a very good course,” says Ryan D. Hughes ’06.Last spring, the Committee to Review the Teaching of Writing and Speaking in Harvard College—one of seven committees under the Harvard College Curricular Review—released a report calling for the integration of public speaking into the undergraduate curriculum.“The teaching of public speaking and oral argument is scant, for many students non-existent, and must be revived vigorously,” the report states.“Oral...
...residential-college dean at Princeton, will become the College’s first associate dean of advising programs in February. The post, an attempt to coordinate Harvard’s advising resources and foster more interaction between students and their advisers, was included among recommendations from the Harvard College Curricular Review’s Committee on Advising and Counseling. On the phone from Princeton yesterday, Rinere said she plans to conduct a “talking tour” of the campus to better understand Harvard’s academic and cultural landscape before she begins to make changes...
...Benedict H. Gross ’71 also announced at the meeting that Monique Rinere, currently a residential college dean at Princeton, will become the College’s first Associate Dean of Advising Programs in February.Professors in attendance emphasized, in accordance with the recommendation of the Harvard College Curricular Review’s Committee on Advising and Counseling, that all faculty be involved in some part of the advising process.However, empty chairs dotted the room and only about 85 professors attended the meeting. This represents a sharp decline in attendance compared to earlier in the year, when curricular review...