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...portrayal of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ role in the fate of a close colleague implicated in a U.S. government lawsuit. An article in the magazine’s January issue suggested that Summers’ friendship with Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer protected the professor??who led a controversial Harvard project to advise Russia in the 1990s—from consequences at Harvard. Seized by some Faculty members to criticize Summers, the article, “How Harvard Lost Russia,” details the activities of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID...
...dean, according to one professor in attendance.Summers was “extremely abrasive, challenging the dean’s authority, interrupting the dean, telling the dean he didn’t know how to run a meeting,” the professor said.But other Faculty members disagreed with that professor??s characterization.“I didn’t see Larry mistreat Bill at those meetings,” committee member Steven Pinker wrote in an e-mail. “That’s the way he treats everyone!” Pinker, the Johnstone Family...
We’ve all been there before—gleefully typing away in the comments section of the CUE guide, relating in excruciating detail how painful the professor??s lectures were, how incoherent the problem sets, and how ludicrously cruel the grading policy. Sweet, sweet catharsis. But it seems that professors relish their schadenfreude...
...this semester’s shopping period—so that students can get a more complete sense of the course content and expectations. Posting lecture videos, either from previous years of a course or recorded during shopping period, would also give students a better sense of a professor??s pace and style—important variables not always evident during an introductory meeting. These modifications would make it vastly easier to shop two (or more) courses that meet simultaneously. Professors and departments should also modify their lottery procedures to ensure that all students have a fair opportunity...
...Professor?? said that internal ratings such as Harvard’s CUE guide are “the greatest thing in the world” because they present more statistically accurate ratings as opposed to RateMyProfessors, which he said attracts extreme comments...