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...provides are many. Professors naturally prefer an audience to their presentation, whose questions can guide discussion and instruction. Even seeing the way students react to information can inform how much time a professor spends on particular topics in the future. Attendance allows for a general assurance that our lecturers?? knowledge—for which we have competed and pay a premium—is being passed on. Furthermore, one of the great benefits of a school like Harvard is the quality of the minds it gathers together in a community. Isolating students from each other and faculty serves...
...Vietnam, Israel has become the heartbeat of U.S. foreign policy and a litmus test of what can be debated—and even of who will be allowed to speak—on university campuses. This year, the Congress of the University and College Union—the British lecturers?? union—proposed a boycott of Israeli universities and academics for what it regards as their complicity in 40 years of Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. This boycott has its counterpart in a decades-old U.S. practice of threatening, defaming, or censoring scholars who dare to criticize...
...explains why so many Core courses are narrow and specific. There is, however, a clear solution: The new dean should lift FAS’ illogical rule that sends away lecturers, top-notch teachers better suited to teaching broad subjects and developing new classes, after eight years of teaching. Instead, lecturers?? contracts should also be indefinitely renewable if their services are needed and they are willing to provide them.The new system’s success also depends largely on the availability of a broad array of departmental alternatives to its foundational courses. Unless there is considerable latitude in selecting...
Written with the clipped diction of a trained economist, Wolcowitz’s essay, “The First Day of Class,” addresses common problems encountered by new lecturers??and is clearly informed by his experiences as an assistant professor and lecturer in economics at Harvard...
...committee also recommended that the school double the number of FYL lecturers from seven to 14, reducing lecturers?? section sizes from 80 students...