Word: kenan
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...have little enthusiasm for course evaluations even for teaching assistants and fellows. It’s consumerism, and it puts ill-formed opinion of students at the center of teachers’ evaluation,” said Mansfield, the Kenan professor of government...
Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, the Kenan professor of government, said he hoped the photograph wouldn’t affect the presidential search committee’s view of Gutmann...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences last May, when Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 introduced a motion calling for all courses of five or more students to be formally evaluated, he unexpectedly provoked a minor uproar. Several professors spoke against the motion, including Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53. He strongly criticized the proposal, saying, “Course evaluations introduce the rule of the less wise over the more wise, of students over professors.” Professor of German Peter J. Burgard went further, claiming that required evaluations...
...province of the University is truth—Veritas,” Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, the Kenan professor of government, wrote in an e-mail...
Although generally held in high esteem, Schama—former Mellon professor of the social sciences and Kenan professor of the humanities at Harvard until 1993—has intermittently come under fire for some of his more esoteric projects. The fallout from his bizarre 1991 speculative murder history, “Dead Certainties,” may have kept some readers away from his 1995 interdisciplinary masterpiece, “Landscape and Memory...