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...President Bok has been very interested in attempts to increase the proportion of senior faculty that are made by promotion within the faculty," adds Sidney Verba '53, associate dean of the faculty for undergraduate education, "but I don't think there has been any change in faculty motions or procedures...
...recall responding to a survey last year, written by Sidney Verba, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education, and myself, in which you were asked whether your courses "increased your knowledge," "increased your analytical skills," "evaluated your work fairly," etc. In general you rated "knowledge learned," "evaluation procedures" and the rest higher than the "mastery of analytical skills." However, some courses stood out as contributing especially to the the mastery of these skills...
...faculty, in tandem with a group of College administrators, have been working informally for the past year to develop a uniform strategy for easing the pressure. The group includes Dowling, Dr. Daniel D. Federman and Dr. James Edelstein, both of the Medical School, and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Sidney Verba...
...Sidney Verba '53, the genial political scientist, was mentioned as a likely candidate for dean of the Faculty. He didn't get the job, but instead was tapped to replace Oscar Handlin as Pfozheimer University Professor and University Librarian. Handlin moved over to the Loeb University chair, replacing retiring Law School eminence grise, Archibald Cox '34. Two other scholars also nabbed for university chairs, the highest honor Harvard can bestow on its professors: outgoing Dean of the Faculty Henry Resovsky and Business School teaching whiz Roland Christensen...
...Sidney Verba, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate affairs, has spent much of his three years in that post implementing these new programs...