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The turmoil in Expos does neither teachers nor students any good. But ultimately, as the best teachers continue to leave the program, it's the students who suffer the most. Until the University demonstrates its commitment to reforming Expos, it will be hard to convince us that undergraduate education is...
Monday: Expos policies create personnel problems, resist oversight and hurt the quality of teaching in the program.
Today: The University's academic culture isolates Expos and under-value the mission of teaching the craft of writing.
But Expos teachers, students and even some Faculty members ask if the attention devoted to that mission is adequate, and if the symbolically low status of the discipline and teaching of writing reflects the reality at a place where research is often valued over practice.
Here, perhaps, is where the reality of educational policy at Harvard seems to mirror the Expos program's symbolic place at the bottom of the Faculty totem pole.