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...first trip to look at colleges I came across a garden you donated to the University of Pennsylvania (I have since learned that the new Hillel there also bears your name). I saw a graduate school named after you at NYU. At Harvard, I have yet to encounter your name on a building, scholarship or endowed professorship—though it’s probably around somewhere...
After his first semester at NYU, he was awarded professor of the year by the Stern School’s Class...
...NYU, Ferguson says, he encountered the latter problem—graduate students being taught in a large class when they needed a tutorial system...
...find myself spending a lot of time at NYU doing what are called ‘office hours,’ but they just do turn into a lot of miniature tutorials, which is difficult when you’ve got...nearly 300 students. I’d far rather have an explicit tutorial relationship than call it office hours,” he says. “You really end up with a situation where you practically have to hide or wear a false beard...once they’ve all had a midterm graded they all want...
Despite being successful wooed from NYU last summer, Ferguson will not arrive in Cambridge until this fall. For his first two years, he says, he will teach only one class so that he can develop new classes and have time to visit his family, which is still in England...