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...lecture hall while their colleague was speaking. Hartl not only attended 1b lectures but followed 1a lectures via the web. “When people agree to teach a course as a group, they need to make a commitment that they’re going to watch the other professors?? lectures at least on the video to know what’s in them,” the biologist says. “I watched every video and took notes just like an undergraduate.”Even as their time behind the podium is cut short, professors...
...minorities, Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Evelynn M. Hammonds will update the University on June 12 with a report detailing the efforts of her office.It will contain analyses of the composition of Harvard’s faculty, new childcare guidelines, and data from surveys of junior professors??all significant recommendations of the two faculty task forces created in the wake of Summers’ Jan. 2005 remarks on women in science, which produced pages of proposals to address the dearth of women and minorities in the sciences in two reports released last May.But some professors...
...education. The future of the Core Curriculum is admittedly important, but expending so much breath on the structure of the literature requirement misses the true problem with a Harvard College education.Which is a shame because, despite some limited success, Harvard is still failing on the whole. While some star professors??including a few I’ve had—engage with their undergraduates regularly, many students’ only real opportunity to interact with faculty is at the faculty dinner each semester. To be fair, some professors are truly struggling under the weight of cultural inertia separating...
...That sentiment is hardly new: in 1944, Dean of the Faculty Paul H. Buck solicited professors?? opinions on the Overseers’ visiting committees. As Morton and Phyllis Keller describe in their book “Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University,” Buck’s findings were far from promising: “complete indifference.... The function has sunk to so low a repute that few believe anything can be done with the device...
...holding all recruiters—military or not—to the same nondiscrimination policy was in compliance with the equal access clause of the Solomon Amendment. Roberts rejected the argument of the HLS professors, some of whom were his teachers over 25 years ago. He wrote that the professors?? interpretation of the equal access clause “is rather clearly not what Congress had in mind.” Roberts also tossed out FAIR’s argument that forcing campuses to welcome military recruiters would violate schools’ rights to free speech and free...