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Robert H. Neugeboren ’83 returned last week to teach Economics 1010a, “Microeconomic Theory,” after taking time off to address student criticism that his lectures are sometimes inaccurate and difficult to understand...
...writing to commend economics Lecturer Robert H. Neugeboren ’83 for his humility (News, “Econ. Lecturer Removed Amid Complaints,” Oct. 30). Regardless of his teaching abilities, Neugeboren is an example to every student and every professor because of his difficult recognition that “many of the criticisms [of the students]...were valid.” I am sure I am not the only one who has had a professor or a teaching fellow who brazenly stated at the beginning of the term that he or she knows what...
...well-kept secret, because I sit through lectures alongside hundreds of fellow students, watching as brilliant minds mangle their genius into incomprehensible, wandering lectures. The secret was put under a spotlight last week, when the economics department announced that, in response to student complaints, Lecturer Robert H. Neugeboren ’83 would take four weeks off from teaching Economics 1010a, “Microeconomic Theory” to better prepare his lectures. While it is not fair to highlight individuals in campus-wide problems, the Neugeboren scandal is indicative of a much bigger problem: a lack in teaching ability...
...Neugeboren also served as a senior tutor in Cabot House until last year...
...Neugeboren said he had been used to teaching similar material in small tutorials, but the large lecture course requires different strategies. For the past four years he has taught Economics 1050, “Strategy, Conflict and Cooperation,” which enrolled 90 students last year. The course received an overall rating of 3.1 in the 2002-2003 CUE Guide, and Neugeboren’s rating...