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...point of view and the audience’s point of view,” Adolphson says. “When a colleague tells you what he’s hearing you say in lecture and gives you feedback, each of the lectures is maybe a notch better in team teaching.”Colleagues are a valuable source of feedback because “students might be afraid to criticize you,” Hartl says.Just as their published work is peer reviewed, professors’ teaching is peer-evaluated when they are part of a team...
...time to reflect on what has been an overwhelmingly positive college experience. When I filled out the senior survey last month, I gave glowing reviews to many aspects of Harvard, chief among them the history of science department, where I have spent my happiest academic moments and received top-notch advising. Chock full of social events and quality hang-out time, one goal of senior week was to instill in the graduating class a warm feeling for the College. Last week, we were encouraged to forget our regrets, take advantage of our last chances, and look back on our time...
...It’s one of the games I will enjoy looking back on.” In the second game of the doubleheader, freshman Bailey Vertovez and sophomore Amanda Watkins allowed only one run each, continuing the stretch of near-perfect Crimson pitching. Princeton, however, was able to notch a 2-0 win. After Cornell swept the team on the first day of Ivy play, Harvard fought back for two victories against Columbia the following day. The Crimson maintained an even record in the Ivy League splitting twinbills with Brown and Yale the following weekend and again with Princeton...
...Other than the fatal illusion that college in America resembles “Grease,” it’s probably the reason I went to Harvard in the first place. I wanted to make sure that when invitations were issued, I would be prepared with a top-notch education and a diplomat’s English...
...collectively cover 240,000 lives asked Dr. Arnold Milstein, national healthcare "thought leader" at the consultancy Mercer Health & Benefits, to assess the best places to outsource elective surgeries. Procedures in Thailand and Malaysia, he found, cost only 20% to 25% as much as comparable ones in the U.S.; top-notch Indian hospitals sell such services at an even steeper discount...