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Many professors at Harvard come to know their students through informal contexts. Although the Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan Pederson encourages professors to eat in the dining halls with students for free, to attend Faculty dinners and to be accessible through office hours, some professors take their efforts to the next level, inviting students to socialize them at their homes at dinner parties or other forms of debauchery. Some of these parties are legendary—Harvard College Professor and John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Maria Tatar’s “Fairy Tales?...
Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan M. Pedersen ’81-’82 says her main concern as a member of the Standing Committie has been expanding the number and range of courses offered. “I think the students’ concerns about the range of offerings are entirely legitimate,” she says...
Faculty members are most often wary of teaching Core classes because they tend to be the largest and most unwieldy offered by the College. As Dean Susan Lewis, director of the Core Program, points out, students are often unaware of the huge amount of effort required to teach large classes. “[It requires] more section leaders and a much greater variety of course-related things to worry about. It’s a huge amount of pedagogical and administrative concerns, and this is a deterrent [for professors],” Lewis says...
...Undergraduate Council representatives—Smith and council President Paul A. Gusmorino ’02—joined Coordinator of Student Activities Susan T. Cooke in presenting the case for later party hours to the three-member license commission...
...next step will be for the chairs to bring the grading discussion back to their departments and report the results to Dean for Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’81-’82 by Feb. 1. However, the immediate responses of some of these Facutly members imply that the report might eventually result in substantial change to Harvard’s grading policies...