Word: seminar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still throw valuable light on specific issues of immediate practical significance. Yet a comprehensive program of educational research cannot dwell only on current questions. We must also develop more reliable techniques for evaluating educational programs and teaching methods. To that end, we hope to launch next year a faculty seminar on assessment under the leadership of Professor Richard Light, an expert in problems of evaluation. This seminar, which will include representatives from other universities, will consider the current state of educational research. In time, it will also design and sponsor some specific projects to investigate issues of particular interest...
...program aiming at increased knowledge is a seminar series held by Response for proctor units. The workshops are voluntary, and proctors must request them. This fall only 10 proctors asked for the workshops for their entryway, says Bronwen C. Evans '87. Two Response counselors tried to implement mandatory counseling, but, when University officials turned down the request, they began circulating a petition last week to require date rape workshops for incoming freshmen...
...fall, Thompson will teach a course in ethics to undergraduates and offer a junior seminar, Putnam said...
Consequently, Ohio State runs a series of programs focusing on beliefs about rape. Stanford requires incoming freshmen to hear a seminar outlining usual circumstances of date rape. Auburn financed a videotape "It Still Hurts" which reenacts a campus party where a date rape might occur. Swarthmore ran a large workshop on rape in the fall of 1984 resulting in a student-produced videotape. And Cornell runs encounter groups in which students discuss date pressures...
...Murillo counts Bianca Jagger (also a Nicaraguan) and Harry Belafonte among her friends. In New York City for January's large international writers' congress, Murillo was escorted by Little Steven Van Zandt, a rock songwriter who produced the antiapartheid anthem Sun City. She had planned to attend an antidrug seminar in Atlanta last week at which Nancy Reagan was hostess, but did not obtain a visa...