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Light’s conclusions here, as in many other areas touched on in the course of his discussion, are deceptively simple. Students say they crave seminar-style classes where they have the chance to deal directly with distinguished professors in small settings. Schools then should focus resources on hiring the faculty to make these classes a reality for more students. Students need interpersonal contact with their professors. Schools then should encourage more faculty to advise. And discussion sections should be scheduled close to dinner so that conversation can spill over into the less formal setting...
Limited resources mean that not every class can be the intimate seminar that students indicate is so satisfying, he says. In fact, more small classes and a fixed faculty size mean more gigantic lecture-style classes, as the middle-sized classes are forced out. Light remembers a dean from a small liberal arts college being appalled at the size of some of Harvard’s bigger classes that weigh in at more than 800 students...
Terry Gross, host of National Public Radio’s long-running “Fresh Air,” switched hats Friday afternoon as she fielded questions from a group of students and fans during a seminar sponsored by the Office for the Arts as part of its “Learning from Performers” series. Gross, whose probing cultural interviews have earned her the reputation as one of the best interviewers on the air, has built her reputation on 25 years of getting to know many of the most influential and talented artists, musicians, actors and writers...
Gross wrapped up the seminar by addressing the personal impact her job has had on her own life. She recounted a story of a woman who approached her at an airport to tell her that her husband, who she had just recently lost to cancer, had loved “Fresh Air” and spoke often of Gross. Gross then counseled students aspiring to follow in her footsteps that the key to successful interviewing is genuine compassion: “The more you genuinely care about a person, the more they will tell you, and the more you will...
Sitting in a packed seminar room in Coolidge Hall, Avnery focused his remarks around the World Trade Center attacks of Sept. 11 and the prospects for peace in the Middle East...