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Similar to this ironic selection process, the dean of the Faculty is not chosen by faculty members. The Faculty??s standing committees are consulted, but, just like the student-faculty committees at the College level, they are mainly advisory. In 2005, the Faculty recognized their inability to instigate or create policies, and classics professor Jan M. Ziolkowski, acting chair of the folklore and mythology program, initiated discussions between various department chairs. Although these discussions were initially focused around the departure of then-President Summers, French professor Christie McDonald continued to organize this unofficial Caucus of Chairs, even after...
CORRECTION: The Oct. 26, 2007 news article "Profs Protest Tenure Interference" incorrectly stated that Palestinian intellectual Wadie Said was up for tenure at Wayne State University. In fact, Said was never on the school's faculty??he was under consideration as an outside candidate for an appointment. In addition, due to an editing error, the article gave the wrong school affiliation for Joan W. Scott. She is a professor at the Princeton, N.J.-based Institute for Advanced Study, not Princeton University...
...Much of the Faculty??s curricular debates last year focused on wresting guidance of undergraduate education out of the hands of administrators and into those of professors. But McCann is one of only two tenured professors currently on the Committee on Writing and Speaking and the only person who has served on the group leading Expos for more than two years. Both tenured members of the committee are leaving for sabbaticals this spring, and English Department Chair James T. Engell ’73 will return to the committee from sabbatical; no tenured faculty member will...
...Program and the Standing Committee on General Education—will alleviate certain restrictions on departmental classes to allow a greater number to be considered for Core credit, Smith wrote. Under the plan, classes that are not repeated on a regular basis—including those taught by visiting faculty??can still be considered as departmental alternates, said Director of the Core Program Susan W. Lewis. Smith also emphasized that classes with prerequisites or without final exams are not excluded from counting for Core credit. Those standards may have been forgotten by faculty and students alike, Lewis said...
...read with mixed sympathy and frustration your editorials on Gen Ed and the Core (“Whither is the Faculty??s passion?” and “And What About Us?”, editorial, Sept. 19). Two years ago I introduced a sequence of two Freshman Seminars modeled on the year-long Literature Humanities core course taught at Columbia University. I am not alone. My department Chair, who teaches some very dynamic and successful Cores, also teaches the Columbia “Contemporary Civilization” sequence for the Extension School...