Word: processes
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...relevant aspect of academic freedom, a principle that affects both the substance of, and the process for, resolving disputes over classroom material is that within their area of professional expertise, instructors exercise full discretion over the content of lectures and the conduct of classroom discussion. This implies that deans and other members of Faculty are not empowered to take actions that quality or abridge the freedom of faculty members to teach their courses. The classroom is also a place for open discussion and reasoned debate of views, opinions and arguments, including those that are controversial. As participants in the classroom...
...disagree both within and outside the classroom. The University cannot prevent all of the conflicts that a commitment to free enquiry may provoke. But in this case it continues to be my hope that our students' concerns will be discussed directly with the faculty member and that that process will lead to a better understanding of the issues and concerns on both sides...
...recruitment process is a long and elaborateone, usually taking two years between proposal ofa professor to teach a Core course and the time itis first taught, administrators said...
...First there is wooing and then backing andforthing," Pilbeam said of the long process todesign Core courses. Each professor goes through arigorous series of proposals and meetings withmembers of the Core's subcommittees, he said. Andeach faculty member who gains approval for acourse must agree to teach it for three years,Lewis said...
...process can speed up for some professors.Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen onlyjoined the faculty last year, but he is alreadyteaching Moral Reasoning 36, "Facts and Ethics,"this semester. He said administrators urged him toteach in the Core when he first arrived atHarvard...