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...English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand and Cogan University Professor of the Humanities Stephen J. Greenblatt.Having multiple players behind the podium during a semester means less lecturing but more pre-class coordination for each professor. Despite the workload, professors say team teaching provides the kind of peer review usually only available for their research. Students say their team teachers’ different lecture styles are refreshing and the courses generally present a coherent narrative while exposing the complexities of academia.PICKING TEAMSTeaching teams play differently: members will either take turns giving lectures on their areas of interest or jointly...
...Viswanathan will be working at 85 Broads, a network founded in 1999 for female Goldman Sachs employees. The organization has since expanded to reach out to women attending business school and college. And when she returns to school in the fall, she will be interacting with freshmen as a peer advising fellow. Viswanathan was selected as one of about 190 fellows out of nearly 500 applicants, and she attended a dinner at Fenway Park’s EMC Club last month for fellows, according to several attendees. The fellows will reach out to freshmen over the summer and on move...
...discusses them in depth. Others say they want to send the proposals back to the drawing board in order to produce a report that will redefine undergraduate education for the 21st century.As it stands, Harvard’s curricular review “puts us in line with many peer institutions, but it doesn’t really show the capacity of our faculty and our students to rethink how best to learn,” Professor of History and Science Allan M. Brandt says.STARTING WITH THE SYLLABUSBefore University administrators can articulate the curricular review’s vision...
...overhaul of the College’s advising system. But her honeymoon was short.On her sixth day at the new job, Rinere met with the board of the 20-year-old, undergraduate-run Prefect Program and told them they would be “morphed” into a peer advising system. It would be a Kafkaesque metamorphosis—that is to say, an involuntary one.Rinere invited the prefect officers to serve on a new Student Advisory Board (SAB), but they were far from mollified. “The Prefect Program has been disbanded effective next year, from above...
...Mather. 5. House overregulation. Some Houses, like Dunster, only allow parties until 1 a.m. Many others allow parties to go until 2 a.m. House masters and residential deans should not have the discretion to make House life worse in some places than in others.6. First-Year Advising. The Peer Advising Fellow system recently put in place will make academic advising for freshmen much better next year. The next step is to redefine the roles of proctors and faculty members in the world of freshman advising. Proctors should sign study cards, plans of study, and so on for all students. Since...