Word: levenson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past recipient of the Levenson Award for outstanding teaching, was denied tenure at Harvard last fall although students regarded him as one of the University's better lecturers. Lee is currently working on a three-volume study of World War II and the Great Depression for which he has received a one-year German Marshall Fund grant...
...move designed to increase student input into the tenure process, the Undergraduate Council last night appropriated $300 to purchase a new plaque to hang in University Hall honoring the Levenson teaching award winners...
...related matter, the council hotly debated and then rejected a proposal to move the Levenson awards banquet out of a house dining hall and into the more prestigious--and more expensive--Faculty Club...
...have seen their younger colleagues from the other side of the lectern. Their teaching skills alone ought to be enough to earn reconsideration for Mr. Lee and Mr. Brinkley. Mr. Brinkley's courses have been oversubscribed for years, an indication of quality, ability and trust as certain as the Levenson Teaching Award won by Mr. Lee. Both men infuse their teaching of history with insights beyond the chronological and political--in Mr. Lee's case, the diplomatic and military: in Mr. Brinkley's, the social and intellectual. Far more important, both generate great interest from undergraduates through their own obvious...
...courses in the book and bear a great burden of their department's teaching load. Brinkley and Starr, a Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist, now at Princeton, also practice a cogent writing style in their academic work that promotes accessibility to their research. The University itself honored Lee with the Levenson Award as Harvard's most outstanding teacher last year. Yet the door has been opened for all four--the door...