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...students” as their pupils and are in the classroom to learn as well. For one, students have not had broad exposure over many semesters to the methods and types of instruction that professors variously employ. They furthermore place too much weight on short-term priorities??scant homework and easy grades—than more far-sighted goals, such as mastery of the subject matter. Students’ short, four-year time horizon clouds their vistas and consequently biases any potentially helpful advice they might proffer.Of course, the process of education does not and should not terminate...
Diana M. Nelson ’84, a member of a group of major alumni donors, said she expected them to stay focused on high-profile issues including Allston and undergraduate education. But, Nelson said, the two might come up with different “specific funding priorities?? detailing how money should be spent within these areas. She emphasized that she did not expect funding decisions to be made through a “top-down, centralized process” but rather one involving deans and faculties across the University...
...students. We hope that lengthening the window in which CUE guide evaluations can be filled out aids in this matter; we are optimistic that Harvard students take them seriously. But without cooperation on CUE evaluations from students, faculty, administrators—combined with the right set of incentives and priorities??improving the quality of education at Harvard College will amount to merely reaching around in the dark...
...noted that his three main priorities??finishing the curricular review, continuing work in Allston, and concluding the work of the committee on science policy—all “have their roots in initiatives that were begun in the past...
...noted that his three main priorities??finishing the curricular review, continuing work in Allston, and concluding the work of the committee on science policy—all “have their roots in initiatives that were begun in the past...