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Lawrence Rosen, chair of Princeton's anthropology department, was recently at a meeting with the university's other department chairs, when the president asked how many had taught a freshman seminar...
...College must focus foremost on academics. Currently, the dearth of meaningful student-faculty interaction is the most pressing concern within this sphere. For example, there are simply not enough teaching resources available to provide each first-year student with a meaningful small-group instructional setting through the Freshman Seminar program. Instead, the least experienced students among us are frequently plunged into giant, anonymous, inflexible lecture courses within the Core Program. Even the academic departments do not always provide respite from this disconnectedness. Too often, students do not have departmental faculty advisors to help shape their academic growth, nor are their...
...When you get to 35 people, it's hard to figure out how to maintain that interaction [in a small seminar]," Gortler said. "Students are missing out...they're thinking less on their feet...
...solution to Gortler's dilemma would seem to be getting another faculty member to teach a second seminar, but in a department with only 12 full-time professors, help is nowhere to be found...
Faculty and administrators say the demands of the University's ambitious Core and Freshman Seminar programs and pressures created by professors with extracurricular responsibilities has left many departments struggling to stay afloat...