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Regardless of broader curricular review changes, new History Department requirements could still go forward, according to the department??s chair, Andrew D. Gordon ’74. These changes could be implemented in the fall 2007, Gordon said...
This is not to say that philosophy professors do not care about students, nor is it to point fingers at a single department. In fact, the philosophy department has done a better job than most of recruiting visiting professors to fill gaps in its curriculum. But the department??s refusal to view its mission in terms of providing full exposure to a field is indicative of a deeply ingrained and problematic mindset both at Harvard and at other research universities; it is unquestioned law that faculty teach the courses they want to teach, regardless of whether those...
...Turning down offers from Stanford, Berkeley, and Michigan, Gay, who decided to accept Harvard’s offer on Wednesday, will join the Government department??and she said she will likely have informal involvement...
...correlation between AP science exam scores and performance in college is weak.“In my class, I have had students with absolutely no physics background do better than people who make a 5 on the AP exam,” Mazur, who co-teaches the Physics Department??s introductory-level year-long sequence, said.Mazur said that AP exams “do a disservice to higher education.”“They are geared as a model that rewards ‘plug and chuck’ and memorization,” Mazur said...
...result, Foster, who has taught at Harvard for 18 years, likely would have lost her post as a lecturer and tutor in the Folklore and Mythology Department??and potentially her special-concentration advising role as well—if she ceased to serve as assistant dean...