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The national search for the next director of Harvard's Expository Writing Program is unlikely to turn up any qualified candidates besides current Expos associate director Nancy Sommers, sources and teachers said this week.
Expos is designed for teaching, not research; its instructors should be the best teachers available. In terms of hiring, should put a stop to a misguided trend of hiring primarily Ph.Ds for Expos jobs. We hope these improvements will result in the hiring of more minority teachers.
Already, Sommers has tried to change Expos for the better; she's set up internal committees, made up of Expos faculty, to assess department policy. She also says she's putting together a student advisory committee for Expos. The Expos program has little tradition of inclusive decision-making, and could...
There are still larger issues that must be addressed. Oversight for Expos is minimal. The standing faculty committee on Expository Writing meets just once a year. That leaves keeping a full-time eye on Expos to Dean for Under-graduate Education Lawrence Buell, who has yet to show himself capable...
Marius won't be leaving Harvard; he'll continue to teach, with courses in the English Department and first-year seminars program. So students get the benefits of Marius' teaching; Harvard retains one of its leading figures and valuable fundraisers; the Expos faculty ushers in a new era.