Word: pilbeam
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Budget constraints are not the only obstacle to increasing faculty presence in the houses. According to Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education David Pilbeam, current trends in academia might preclude the level of faculty presence that was feasible in the past...
...academic life is different from what it was a few years ago," he says, explaining that today fewer faculty live near the houses--or even in Cambridge--than in the past. Professors are thus less likely to want to go to a house for meals during a busy day, Pilbeam says...
...Pilbeam says that though the recommendations made by the council's academic committee "seem possible, and to some extent do-able," there are limits to what can be accomplished in concrete terms...
...Pilbeam, who is also Ford professor of anthropology, will return full-time to that department the fall...
...would have preferred to step down a year ago but I stayed on at Dean Knowles's request and I'm glad I did," Pilbeam said...