Word: professor
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...Jewish professors at Harvard will probably spend more time examining Jewish issues in coming years, Robert Nozick, professor of Philosophy, said yesterday in a discussion of Jewish life at Harvard with Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government...
...legislation yet or discussed it with Faculty Council members." He explained he did not think the legislation applied to a small department like Philosophy where student-faculty contact occurs informally. Consequently, Ricketts said he does not plan to set up the required student-faculty committee nor press each Philosophy professor to teach a tutorial...
FURTHERMORE, the legislation exhorts the Faculty to acknowledge the individualized student-professor relationship as the ideal tutorial goal. Again head tutors are less than obliging. McKinsey said she thinks graduate students make up for their lack of experience with their youthful verve. Besides, she reasons, "You can get the wisdom of the old gray heads in lectures." McKinsey perhaps has a point. But more pertinent is the irritating freedom with which she and others permit their personal opinion to take precedence over Faculty-wide directives. By such retorts these head tutors flout not only the goals of this latest...
...once the opportunity arose for the faculty to divorce themselves from this fraternity of scholarship, they did so. Bowersock said that in the wake of the graduate student-rich 1960s, Faculty members have come to view the phenomenon of a professor-led tutorial as "an abnormal practice." By the reforms, he added, he hopes to re-establish tutorial instruction as a normal Faculty activity...
...response, though, Bowersock has one more trump to play. While the administration cannot force a department to comply with the regulations, they can block additional professor appointments until departments make tangible exertions toward increasing Faculty involvement in tutorials. Bowersock is counting on this "power of persuasion" to give teeth to the reforms. Nonetheless, dangling additional faculty appointments before department heads does not address the central issue. Faculty attitude toward the personalized approach of the tutorial process must change, not the shape or size of the reward offered to departments to lure them back to teaching...