Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Giant lecture classes foster disillusionment-students soon convince themselves that Harvard's big name professors are largely just big names. But Harvard professors--from the most junior faculty to the likes of Cornel West--are very open to talking with students. Faculty holds office hours at least once a week, and these hour-long sessions are an ideal time to dish with a favorite professor about class, college and life in general. Just think of a perfunctory question to ask and head on down...
...Unfortunately, grad students at Harvard are not extremely active," says J. Gregory Foster, president of the Harvard Graduate Council, a group composed of students in all the University's graduate programs. "Most are committed to getting work done and getting...
...Because other schools--like Business, Kennedy, Divinity--operate as fiefdoms, there is little coordination of effort," says Foster, who is also a second year student at the Business School...
...Foster sees the fractured nature of graduate student interests across schools and departments as a reason for the lack of labor activism at Harvard...
...Foster advocates for the coordination, and perhaps, unionization, of graduate students through the GSC and GSAS across Harvard's many graduate schools...