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...other four professors who sit on the Committee of Deans are James J. McCarthy, professor of biological oceanography; Helen H. Vendler, Kenan professor of English and American literature and language; George M. Whitesides '60, Mallinckrodt professor of chemistry; David Pilbeam, professor of anthropology and associate dean for undergraduate education...
Speculation among faculty members has focusedon Brendan A. Maher, dean of the Graduate Schoolof Arts and Sciences, and David Pilbeam,associate, dean for undergraduate education, aspossible interim deans...
Whether the report will have an impact on undergraduate education in the future is still unclear, said Pilbeam. He said the report's impact will depend largely on the faculty's willingness to change long-standing teaching traditions...
...Pilbeam, however, said that such logisticaldifficulties were not such a problem, and thatprofessors of large classes could simply takerandom samplings of their "one minute papers...
...Generally speaking, any improvement we canmake is good," said Pilbeam. "Although therealities of a research-oriented university likeHarvard renders unfeasible certain aspects of thestudy, even the smallest improvement we can makeis beneficial...