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In recent years, Expos teachers have described their program as an island, with little more than a footbridge connecting it to the rest of the curriculum. Students were expected to write one way in Harvard's first-year writing program and another way in their classes. Sommers says she wants...
"I'd like to see more interaction between departments and Expos," Dean for Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell said in an interview last fall. "The departmental programs, particularly tutorial instruction, could benefit from the systematic instruction in writing that the Expos people have."
Many professors have similar feelings. "I'd be very interested in seeing proposals to see more formal and articulated links between what goes on in Expos and others courses," Professor of Biology Andrew H. Knoll said last year.
Expos teachers also feel that for Sommers to succeed, she must make it easier for them to communicate with the faculty. Under the Marius administration, many teachers in the program complained the Expos administration isolated writing instructors from the rest of campus.
While she can be shy, Sommers is an aggressive personality, Expos teachers say. She says she wants first-years to learn to be "active interpreters," not "passive reporters" in their writing.