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...into academics thinking, ‘I want to teach at Harvard,’” says Jasanoff. “You can think it, but it may not be a reality.”STUDENT-TEACHER RELATIONSSeveral recent-graduates-turned-faculty have the advantage of firsthand understanding of the College experience.Having been an undergrad “helps me relate to [my students] better than I otherwise might,” Nelson says. “If you enjoy the place and feel connected to it and feel invested in its future, I think that probably makes...
...fear in campaigns. “The way that campaigns use [fear] is out of context. To instigate fear, they have to exaggerate something that’s really not there,” Scott H. Reed ’12 said. But Velo-Arias shared his firsthand observation of fear tactics. “One of the reasons why Cuban Americans generally vote Republican is there’s a fear of big government and fear of change,” he said. “That’s something they played on a lot back home...
...voted for Obama partly because she hoped he would take interest in improving conditions in urban areas - like Obama's adopted hometown neighborhood, Hyde Park, a leafy Chicago enclave surrounded by some of the city's bleakest communities. She said Obama may be the first President with a firsthand understanding of life in neighborhoods like hers. Gray said she wants the basics: cracked sidewalks repaved, enough funding so that largely black and Latino urban public schools can compete with the predominately white schools in affluent suburbs. "Just look around," she said on Election Day, pointing to a long...
Grimm said most of his co-workers are young, and that everyone except senior staff works alongside one another in an open space, exposing him firsthand to the “gears grinding” behind the scenes...
Though the seminars focus on collaboration between graduate students and faculty, Stauffer said his seminar will also be open to qualified undergraduates because they possess firsthand experience about what is effective in a college classroom...