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...that if we fail to move the needle for education, the nation’s prospects will be affected,” Cisneros said, highlighting a collective responsibility to improve public education in America. The most prevalent issue during the question and answer portion of the event was immigration reform, and Cisneros presented a “three-part package” consisting of a guest worker program, stricter border controls, and a path to citizenship for workers who have been successful in the United States. “If we don’t figure out how to integrate...
...motion represented an attempt to reconcile the committee’s most popular course with the new strictures of the looming curricular reform. All MBB courses are currently offered through other departments...
Finally, make better training and more creative deployment of graduate teaching fellows a central part of curricular reform. Graduate student teachers are as vital to great research universities as medical interns are to flagship hospitals. At Harvard, we fund graduate education in part through teaching fellowships and offer excellent teacher training to our PhDs. But teaching fellowships have been tied, in a cookie-cutter fashion, to lecture-course sections enrolling 15 to 18 undergraduates apiece. Faculty are often loath to try new course formats for fear of not employing enough TFs; and graduate students do not develop a full range...
Under any scenario, it will not be easy to fashion more pedagogically effective courses and weave stronger ties between students and faculty advisors. But we can achieve measurable reforms in just a few years, if we set clear goals and modify ossified procedures. To make curricular reform a reality, we must of course ensure accountability and careful budgeting—yet also find ways to enhance cooperation, reduce bureaucracy, and stimulate creative teaching and learning where it really counts, from the bottom up, and in the hearts and minds of teachers and students themselves...
...campus, decreasing the University’s energy consumption, and improving athletic scheduling. Though ultimately the decision to change the College’s calendar is in the hands of the administration and governing boards, we hope that this referendum will highlight the broad student support for such reform and push University and Massachusetts Halls into action. So students, don’t let this real chance to bring about a long overdue calendar reform slip away. Vote yes in the UC’s calendar reform referendum...