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...version of RateMyProfessor.com,” as one professor claimed at a Faculty meeting, evaluations are a valuable tool for pedagogical improvement, without which teachers are essentially feedback-blind. Though few professors opt out of such evaluations, leaving the option open at all amounts to providing a sop to professors?? whims and egos. While the Faculty did vote to mandate evaluations of all teaching fellows (TFs)—a critical step in the University’s recognition of the importance of teaching ability among those responsible for students’ education here—its failure...
...rise to the occasion. It must show as much enthusiasm in offering new courses as it did when over 400 faculty members showed up to attend a vote of no confidence in Summers. The lack of enthusiasm evidenced by Curricular Review votes that barely reached a Faculty quorum, and professors?? certitude and inability to cooperate, must give way to a newly concerted communal effort. That did not happen in the past four years, but it needs to start happening if the new curriculum is to work for professors??and most importantly, for students...
...owner of the Capstone Mortage Company in Lexington.This was the first time the four have broken bread. Perhaps up for discussion, along with the future of Harvard’s Faculty, was Smith’s selection as one of Harvard’s “fifteen hottest professors?? by The Crimson’s weekly magazine, Fifteen Minutes, in 1999.—Staff writer Samuel P. Jacobs can be reached at jacobs@fas.harvard.edu.—Staff writer Johannah S. Cornblatt can be reached at jcornbl@fas.harvard.edu...
...Harvard is encouraging its faculty to become more entrepreneurial, especially as the University tries to catch up with peer institutions that earn hundreds of millions of dollars a year off professors?? patents. A study by the Milken Institute last year ranked Harvard 18th among North American research universities in “technology transfer,” the process of converting research advances into revenue-generating innovations...
Interim Dean of the Faculty David Pilbeam announced at yesterday’s Faculty meeting the creation of an ad hoc committee to advise the next dean on activity-based learning, turning professors?? attention toward a new initiative as the debate over the new general education curriculum approaches a conclusion...