Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jacob next considers the small extent to which students' values are modified during college and he seeks to determine how much this modification is the result of the curriculum, how much of the instructor, and how much of the teaching method...
...student with an alert and critical mind, the ideal professor is the scholar who can teach. For such a student will demand an instructor who is at the forefront of the field, and who considers the field a live one. There are, however, very few Kittridge's at Harvard now, or at any time. There are very few professors who give brilliant lectures in the morning, write penetrating essays in the evening, and give friendly dinners on Sunday afternoons...
While the sciences are having trouble keeping their good men at the teaching fellow. level, the other Departments are first being hurt at the instructor level. The promising Harvard instructor can usually count on getting a higher paying position, often with tenure, at another institution...
...instructor is especially tempted by tenure at another university since the odds against gaining tenure at Harvard are always steeper than at other institutions. This, combined with the growing financial wealth of state supported universities places considerable pressure on Harvard to better the salary, living conditions, and working conditions of the teaching fellow, instructor, and assistant professor...
These students take only seminars, two a term. Five or six students meet weekly with an instructor, writing papers every other week. Ordinarily one seminar is in the student's own field and the others related. A typical honors program might include four political science seminars, two in history, and two in economics...