Word: interactionalism
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...Their highest-profile event of the year, the Red Party, was open to all who paid the $10 admission price. It was praised as a successful opportunity for a diverse group of people to interact...
...relationships with a member of the Harvard faculty. We are obliged to fulfill eight Core Curriculum requirements, which banish undergraduate students to impersonal, anonymous lecture halls. Although even the most world-renowned Harvard professors are required to have open office hours, so that students may presumably interact with professors outside of the classroom setting, yet both students and Faculty need to make a greater effort so that office hours are more comfortable and ensure both convenient and meaningful Faculty-student interaction. Professors make little effort to mingle or interact with the undergraduates enrolled in their courses--they most often...
Last February, the College proved it was thinking along the right track with its decision to re-invoke dining hall options for faculty members. Meals are an opportune chance for students to interact with their professors. Lunches and dinners are conducive to conversation especially because they are removed from anonymous lecture halls and intimidating faculty offices and placed in more familiar student turf. Unfortunately, however, the plan has only received meager attention and even more scanty application; during the plan's first month, only eleven faculty members took advantage of the opportunity to dine with their students. Of course...
...solution that could help bridge the gap between professors lecturing to students and professors conversing with students are more interactive classes. Instead of accolade laden professors delivering lectures that conclude with the first chime of the eleven o'clock bell, professors can reserve a few minutes during each lecture to answer questions and to listen to student responses to the material. Professors who lecture should also be required to attend each of the class sections at least once during the term, so that they may interact with their students on a more intimate level...
Harvard faculty should not shirk their responsibility as teachers and instructors because of their personal research and individual pursuits. Some progress has been made, but students must take advantage of the opportunities to interact with Faculty, and it remains the responsibility of the administration to find more ways to encourage personal interaction...