Word: levensons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student evaluations of teaching ability are not adequately considered in tenure decisions. We are pleased that the number of internal tenures of good teachers seems to be rising; we wish, however, that students had something to do with that trend. A perennial joke is that winning the student-nominated Levenson Award for exemplary undergraduate teaching is a sure way not to get tenure. Students and good teachers deserve better than that...
...Past Levenson winners have included Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53, Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach and Williams Professor of History and Political Science Roderick F. MacFarquhar
Epps said he wanted to know which faculty members students like because he often asks Levenson nominees to participate in faculty discussion groups...
...award was established by the family of Joseph R. Levenson '44, a premier historian of China's intellectual history at Berkeley who drowned in 1969 while attempting to save his son from drowning...
...Levenson was particularly known for his emphasis on teaching as well as research, according to McFadden...