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...Flehinger received Harvard’s Levenson Award for outstanding teaching in 2001, an honor that Eck said stood out during the resident dean application process and showed that he had a "strong and vibrant" connection with students. Eric C. LeMay, the former Head Preceptor in the Expository Writing Department, said he shared an office with Flehinger, who was "enthusiastic and energetic to the marrow...
...looms large over Gen Ed’s launch. The Gen Ed committee’s primary challenge has been to ensure that students have a wide enough variety of courses to choose from in the fall, according to former Gen Ed committee member Alexander N. Chase-Levenson ’08—placing the burden on professors to develop more offerings. “We can’t have anything new unless colleagues send us forward something new,” says Gen Ed committee member Julie Buckler, who is also a Slavic literature professor. Many more...
...this spring. “Faculty, like students, wait till the deadline to get their proposals in—and after,” said Kenen, who added that about 80 course proposals came in around the March 20 deadline. But former Gen Ed committee member Alexander N. Chase-Levenson ’08 said that the committee was more concerned with the variety of courses available than their number. Gen Ed committee members admit that there is still be more work to be done. While the humanities category Aesthetic and Interpretative Understanding boasts 15 new Gen Ed courses?...
...issues, or to push for better student life. Some council members concentrated on initiatives like the Endowment for Divestiture, a fund for students who wanted their senior gift contribution held in escrow until Harvard divested from Apartheid South Africa. Closer to home, the UC honored teachers with the new Levenson Awards and convinced Harvard to maintain summer storage. One of the UC’s sweetest successes during its first five years was the addition of chocolate milk to dining hall machines. Alas, it also had to deal with drier administrative issues like Ad Board and calendar reform...
...much “sought after.” After serving as executive dean for seven years, Richardson said that she will be “very much involved” in selecting her replacement before leaving for Scotland. Richardson, who was awarded Harvard’s Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize by the undergraduate student body, said she had planned to co-teach a course on the Iraq war in the fall, but will no longer be lecturing next semester. Richardson came to Harvard 27 years ago as a graduate student in government. In the 1990s, she taught the only...