Word: instructors
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...General Education at Lawrence College, where he taught a section of the required course on five or six "great books" during his presidency there. "You can't examine a text," he complains, "if simply getting through the number of pages exhausts you." Owen shares this concern, and one instructor recently suggested that a Gen Ed course might profitably take up only one or two books a term, delving into them for every possible meaning...
...Harvard had 304 faculty members above the rank of instructor and 237 on the junior teaching staff (this last figure includes part-time teachers and this is not directly comparable to the figure for senior members). By 1954 the number of senior members had risen to 453 while that of junior faculty had jumped to 529. This represented a 49 per cent increase in senior faculty and a 123 per cent increase in junior faculty...
Seeking to determine the effect of education on the values held by students, Jacob concludes that college has no fundamental impact on the students' basic values, and that what peripheral effect it has is not to be explained by the influence of the curriculum, of the instructor, or of the teaching methods used...
...resignation was tendered by Nicholas J. Perella 4G, a Teaching Fellow who was recently appointed instructor in the Department beginning in the Fall. Shortly after he was appointed, Perella resigned from the University to accept an offer to teach at the University of California. Perella will receive his Ph.D. at Commencement next week...
Also accepting an appointment to the University of California is Clorinda V. Ferruolo, Instructor in Italian, who will head the Italian Department at the Berkeley campus. Ferruolo's instructorship expires this month...