Word: exposions
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"That meeting was Ground Zero for Expos," saysa former teacher. "After that, everythingchanged."
Richard Marius was teaching history atthe University of Tennessee when Harvard tappedhim for the Expos director's job in 1978.
With the decision, Marius and Sommers broke literally dozens of verbal and written promises to teachers--who were never formally told about the change. And Marius and Sommers created a policy that, teacherssay, has hurt Expos instructors personally andprofessionally.
More importantly, the four-year rule that grewout of a few days in March 1989 has had negativeconsequences for the quality of teaching thatfirst-year students see in their Expos classes.
Marius and the administrators he hired havedone much to accomplish those goals. Sue A.Lonoff, who was an Expos preceptor for eight yearsand is now a lecturer offering an Expos courseevery spring, says Marius' chief accomplishmenthas been the establishment of official standards."When I came in, there really were no criteria...