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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...
...diversity and development is also vying for space to build a new day-care center on the University’s Allston campus.STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANTThe Office of Faculty Development and Diversity collected demographic data that compares Harvard’s schools to each other and the University overall to peer institutions, investigating questions such as the number of tenure offers made to males and females and the time it takes until promotion.In addition, the office used the 50-item survey of junior faculty developed by COACHE that has been used at other universities, like Dartmouth, to measure job satisfaction through opinions...
...second, to require all professors to distribute Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) surveys in their courses, and to publish the results of these surveys in the annual CUE Guide.The current limit of three years for non-tenure track lecturers is unique among virtually all of Harvard’s peer institutions. As a consequence, Harvard—despite its perpetual need for better teachers—is forced to release a number of well-liked and highly effective instructors each year, and yet the Faculty has failed to reconsider its policy on lecturers. Students should not have to study under...
...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...
...role of course evaluations. The Committee on Advising and Counseling also recommended appointing a dean to oversee a new Office of Advising (which the College has been quick to do—naming Monique Rinere to the post last December) and the transformation of the Prefect program into a peer advising program for upperclassmen to advise freshmen. Other committees’ recommendations included expanding financial aid for summer study abroad programs and creating more integrative, introductory science courses in the life and physical sciences. We wholeheartedly endorsed these reforms and await their immediate implementation.The proposals of the Education Policy Committee...