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Nevertheless, the steps proposed in the report are inadequate. The committee’s recommendations for improving the quality of Teaching Fellows (TFs), for instance, are dubious at best. The report recommends that fellowships be created for outstanding TFs and that training in assisting with and evaluating written and oral presentations be required of all TFs. But while fellowships might inspire the best TFs to work harder, it is hard to imagine the unlikely prospect of a fellowship transforming indifferent TFs into motivated ones. Moreover, the type of generalized (read: fluffy) pedagogical training TFs are likely to receive...
Mortimer B. Zuckerman, owner of US News and World Report, announced Thursday that he will donate $10 million to Harvard University for a graduate fellowship program designed to attract students who have studied law, business or medicine to the public sector...
...Zuckerman Fellowship is a testament to the mission we subscribe to here at the Kennedy School of Government, to encourage the best and brightest to commit themselves to public service and help to change the world,” said Tim Sultan, president of the Kennedy School’s Student Government...
...press release said that University President Lawrence H. Summers and Zuckerman believe that the fellowship will help encourage students to explore careers in public service rather than entering fields that offer higher financial incentives...
Building on that success, CityStep Executive Director Laura E. Weidman ’04 sent in an application this year to the Pforzheimer Fellowship program proposing to start a CityStep clone at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn). The proposal went through. After she graduates, Weidman will move to Philadelphia and begin laying the groundwork for UPenn’s CityStep...