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...Students are not the only ones to have questioned the propriety of the EPC. Since its establishment in 1992 by Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Jeremy R. Knowles, the EPC—which was never ratified by the Faculty??has drawn criticism for the power that it commands despite its murky status relative to the rest of the FAS’s governance structures...
German literature professor Judith L. Ryan, a member of the Faculty Council—the 18-member Faculty governing body that moved for the legislation to appear before the full Faculty??said that the proposal addresses some of the drawbacks of the existing evaluation system...
...objections of his colleagues. “Professor Matory desires a situation in which he may say whatever he wishes, no matter how outrageous or inflammatory,” government professor Eric Nelson said. Computer science professor Michael O. Rabin said he did not believe the proposal enhanced the Faculty??s existing free speech guidelines and moved to table Matory’s motion. “I think we can all agree that we have complete confidence in our leadership,” he said. “It would be extremely awkward now to debate either...
...required to offer evaluations at the end of their courses. This has been an astonishingly controversial issue among professors, who hypocritically voted to mandate evaluation for teaching fellows but not themselves. A culture of feedback and improvement cannot be established if faculty see themselves as above evaluation. The Faculty??s recalcitrance also hurts students, who cannot be expected to take their evaluations seriously if professors do not respond to suggestions for improvement and publish their evaluations in the Q Guide. While the new Q is a step in the right direction, it cannot be considered...
Taken together, the roster of cars—and other modes of transport—employed by Harvard professors sheds a bit of light on the Faculty??s distinctive character: part snooty and part down-to-earth, part self-conscious and part green-conscious. None of those attributes, it turns out, are mutually exclusive...