Word: marius
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Expos program's hopelessly misguided four-year rule, which Marius introduced in 1989 without a grandfather clause, resulted from his desire to quash dissent on the faculty. Other teaching positions at Harvard, including junior faculty appointments, carry term limits, but few are so rigid. Most preceptor positions in foreign language and math programs last eight years; stellar teachers have the opportunity to remain at Harvard much longer, with periodic reviews...
...administration has structures in place to oversee Expository Writing; its paralysis, then, is inexcusable. The standing faculty committee on Expos meets only once a year for about 90 minutes to hear--and rarely dispute or investigate--a presentation from Marius and Associate Director Nancy Sommers. Deans of Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell and David Pilbeam, Marius's direct superiors, have deferred to his judgment for even his most dubious decisions. Both deans, as well as Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz, have given only tepid responses to student concerns...
Harvard knows about the problems with Expos; it needs, for once, to address them. For starters, Richard Marius--who has hinted that his days at Expos are numbered--should leave the department for good. The four-year rule should disappear swiftly with...
That is precisely the problem for ExpositoryWriting instructors, the teachers say. Even ifSommers and Marius do talk to professors, the restof the Expos staff has no official contact withthe Faculty...
...University which, at present, he says,"doesn't always ask students to live up to itsstandards."CrimsonEdward H. WuRICHARD C. MARIUS...