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Along with the majority of department heads, some of Princeton's most famous faculty members have taught in the freshman seminar program, including Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, recent Harvard presidential candidate Amy Guttman '71 and the controversial ethicist and philosopher Peter Singer...
...though Princeton's freshman seminar program program is young, in just over a decade it has blossomed from 10 offerings to 66 this year. Harvard's version of the freshman seminar program began in 1959, but only offered 36 seminars this year...
...make [faculty] offers they can't refuse," jokes John V. Fleming, co-director of the freshman seminar program at Princeton and professor of English and Comparative Literature...
...only half-joking. Princeton's program is structured financially so that the department of the professor who is offering the seminar does not have to entirely foot the bill for the seminar...
Roughly half of Princeton's seminars are funced by endowments and departments are reimbursed for the professor's teaching time out of those funds, Howard "Hank" N. Dobin, co-director of the freshman seminar program and associate dean of the college notes...