Word: exposions
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“Tom has made it a priority to work with us on ways to help our students connect what we do in Expos to the writing they will do during their four years at Harvard,” Jane Rosenzweig, an Expos preceptor, said in an e-mail...
In fact, the issue of a lack of job security reaches into the higher echelons of the program: Suzanne Lane, the former assistant director of Expos, decamped for MIT earlier this month in order to lead the technical institute’s writing programs.
For example, the long-standing goal of reaching out to departments throughout the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in order to pinpoint the particulars of writing in various disciplines seems to have lost traction, according to Classics Professor Richard F. Thomas and philanthropist Morton I. Sosland ’46...
One administrator close to the program said the year-to-year contracts that characterize Expos hiring practices devalue the preceptor position.
“The danger for a program like Expos is that it becomes a low-level service course, [that] anyone can teach it, [that] there is no permanent staff to it,” the individual said.