Word: slavic
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...Chase-Levenson ’08—placing the burden on professors to develop more offerings. “We can’t have anything new unless colleagues send us forward something new,” says Gen Ed committee member Julie Buckler, who is also a Slavic literature professor. Many more professors have sent in course proposals for existing Core courses than for new Gen Ed classes, according to Buckler. But Gen Ed committee members say that they determined early on not to provide monetary incentives or teaching relief to encourage professors to develop...
...Stephanie Sandler, the chair of the Slavic Department, said that she is concerned that “reshaping” might mean merging smaller departments, which would come at the cost of “closer relationships with students, smaller classes, a greater sense of cohesion among faculty, and shared intellectual projects...
...office, and Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris, who also chairs the Gen Ed committee, will serve as its faculty director. The Gen Ed office will absorb its predecessor, the Core office, according to College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds. Gen Ed committee member and Slavic Professor Julie Buckler said that Harris told the committee at a recent meeting that the new office will be in the Holyoke Center and that the administration is hoping to have offices available for teaching fellows. Harris, Kenen, Hammonds, and Core Program Director Susan W. Lewis declined to comment further. In the meantime...
Besides the expert copy-editing at the Chicago Maroon, things aren't looking too good at UChicago. Each of the three divisions have taken a 25% budget cut, which has hit the smaller humanities departments especially hard, since the sciences already enjoy substantial outside funding. Their Slavic department is dying, with at most one graduate student matriculating next year. Ultimately the choice for the humanities division came down to hiring new faculty or accepting more graduate students--and they decided to focus on the former, reducing the size of their incoming graduate school class...
...Natalia A. Reed, a preceptor in the Slavic languages and literatures department who was a Harvard graduate student in the 1980s, says that Leavitt and Peirce has retained its character...