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...PERHAPS the most comprehensive study of the state of the academic profession in recent years, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching last week called attention to the tendency of major universities to neglect teaching while unduly emphasizing research in tenure decisions. "Too often," foundation president Ernest L. Boyer wrote in the foreword to the 360-page report, "universities give the highest rewards to those faculty members who may not be committed to giving their best efforts to the students." Harvard undergraduates--in case those watching recent tenure decisions have been wondering--aren't the only people concerned that...
...tenure decisions. But it looks increasingly as if the elaborate calculus by which teaching is taken into account needs some adjustment. And as last week's report said, Harvard's influence in academia gives it a particular obligation to reaffirm the worth of good teaching. If schools like Harvard neglect teaching, the report said, "other institutions are likely to undervalue it as well...
...foreword to the report, Ernest L. Boyer,the foundation's president, wrote thatuniversities should not neglect teaching in orderto remain on the `cutting edge' of academicresearch...
...increase in federal spending, despite Reagan's campaign promises about reining in the Government. During the Administration's first term, total federal spending jumped 26%, to $852 billion in fiscal 1984. The biggest item was defense, reflecting the President's view that the military had suffered a decade of neglect in the 1970s. Reagan's buildup cost $1.2 trillion over the fiscal years 1981-'86, which boosted military spending 41% after adjustment for inflation. Among the new hardware: the B-1B bomber (cost: $280 billion) and the MX missile system ($20.7 billion for the first 50). The Strategic Defense Initiative...
...director Lowenstein uses glossy images and clever camera angles to give the movie a slick, high-tech look in the same vacuous MTV style of his INXS videos. The movie looks great, but is so hopelessly vapid that it hardly matters. This emptiness is due to Lowenstein's complete neglect of some of the niceties of movie-making--plot and character...