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Conservation Biology and Biodiversity is a small interdisciplinary seminar focusing on field biology and the social aspects of conservation. It is the only course at Harvard taught by two recipients of the Phi Beta Kappa award for teaching, Glenn Adelson and Dan Perlman; Adelson is the only current teacher at Harvard to have won both the Phi Beta Kappa award and the Levenson award for excellence in undergraduate education...
...letter-writing campaign, appealing to the President, the Provost, the Dean of the Faculty and the ESPP committee on behalf of the class and its teachers. The letters emphasized the intimate tutorial's importance in a concentration laden with large introductory classes and, more importantly, the irreplaceability of Perlman and Adelson...
ESPP claims that the course will return next year without Adelson and Perlman; they frame this event as just another case of regular turnover on the teaching staff. But beyond the obvious differences in content and quality that different professors would bring, we doubt that anything resembling Conservation Biology and Biodiversity could be taught by anyone but Perlman and Adelson. Junior Faculty have no incentive to invest the enormous time and energy such a course requires when it takes them away from the publishing that will garner them tenure; Senior Faculty have no incentive to leave their research and spend...
Kaiser says she thought the committee should have helped Adelson and Perlman find other positions within the University...
McCarthy says the ESPP concentration would provide some other way of teaching the material covered in Adelson and Perlman's tutorial...