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...Compact on Teaching and Learning,” as the report was called, found that teaching skill was ignored or even stigmatized in performance reviews of graduate students and professors. In response, the compact called for a slew of fundamental changes to the way the University approaches pedagogy—including more documentation of teaching ability during hiring and promotions, more funding for pedagogical experimentation, increased scheduling flexibility to allow for different class formats, and a push for professors to visit each other’s courses and share teaching materials...
...clear that she is a woman accustomed to being in a man’s world: first as a historian of the antebellum South, then as an administrator, and now as a woman in a 367-year succession of 27 men. And her scholarship, charm, judgment, fundraising ability, administrative skill, and vision were all abundantly on display during her six years as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.Yet Massachusetts Hall is a far cry from Fay House. The challenges Faust faces as president—from laying the groundwork for a campus in Allston to uniting a balkanized...
...need multiple skill sets. For cardiac stem cell research, you need stem cell biologists, developmental biologists, cardiologists, and engineers,” Reeve says. “You need multiple discipline sets in order to ultimately be able to cure certain diseases...
Akpan, who has been playing soccer since he was three years old, has used those years of experience to reach a very high skill level. Not only does he seem to keep the ball glued to his foot on the dribble and to possess an innate talent for finishing plays, but he is also able to beat defenders with his speed, a somewhat unusual quality for a player of his size...
...made good friends from places I’d never encountered before (the Midwest, for example). I was consistently impressed by the intelligence and skill of others, whether it was in field hockey, lab research, or singing. I studied, of course, pulling all-nighters to finish my thesis and memorize the images of Alexander the Great. I fell in love. I had a lot of fun. And to my parents’ chagrin, I ate breakfast sparingly...