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...vote on revamping the Core, a major portion of the curricular review, could come as early as May.Bok also played a central role in advising a committee on teaching led by Theda Skocpol, the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. A January report from Skocpol??��s committee advocated linking faculty salaries to teaching performance as well as research.Skocpol said that Bok considered her committee’s work “a very important endeavor” and that “he had lots of suggestions.” She added...
...that can help teachers and students to improve learning,” Skocpol wrote in an e-mail. “The hotline is a blunt tool for that, and probably not the best one.” The hotline scheme has already been altered once in response to Skocpol??��s original concern that the hotline’s undergraduate board would directly approach TFs with complaints. Skocpol??��s unrest led Petersen to change the program so that the only parties approached would be course heads. But, according to one TF, this conciliatory gesture...
...really underrated field; theories of language can teach you a lot about life. Social Analysis 43, “Psychological Trauma” is another “cool subject, boring reading” combination. And there’s some wonky stuff like Professor of Sociology Theda Skocpol??��s “American Society and Public Policy,” (Social Analysis 54) which all you gov-types will love...
...Skocpol agreed to return as a tenured professor to the same department that she had accused of discrimination. And two decades after that, she assumed the post of GSAS dean.The University faced a second challenge from another young female professor seeking to gain standing at Harvard within months of Skocpol??��s allegation. Although the number of female tenured Faculty professors has grown sixfold within the last 25 years, unease persists among female scholars at Harvard. Skocpol??��s story continues to reverberate at William James Hall, home to the University’s Sociology Department, and throughout...
...report—authored by five-professor group chaired by political scientist Peter A. Hall, and including historian David R. Armitage, economist Edward L. Glaeser, sociologist Mary C. Waters, and political scientist Theda Skocpol??��called for a smaller steering committee that will manage and direct the department...