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...because of my first year, which was rocky.... I never took any of the subsequent seven years for granted. When I started in 1999, I rented a small apartment. When I left this summer, I was still renting a small apartment,” said Eric Weinberger, who taught in Expos from...
...discussion section were offered chocolate before filling out teaching evaluations, while those in another section completed the evaluations without the candy. Of the 98 students in three lecture classes, those offered chocolate gave responses that were on average approximately 4 percent more positive, even though the sections were taught by the same teaching assistant. “Based on our results, I think it’s really unfair if instructors are compared against one another where some have been impacted by these [factors],” said one of the study’s authors Benjamin...
...that injecting political messages into schools from above violates the principles of secular neutrality that led to the ban of religious objects like yarmulkes and Islamic hijab in public schools. That official state secularism was imposed at public schools in 1903 to end previous practices of Catholic theology being taught under the guise of non-denominational education; critics claim Sarkozy's embrace of the Môquet letter restores that practice on an ideological level. "Can we take the risk that the event will transform the high school into a political arena?" asked SNES in a statement explaining...
...Core Program and the Standing Committee on General Education—will alleviate certain restrictions on departmental classes to allow a greater number to be considered for Core credit, Smith wrote. Under the plan, classes that are not repeated on a regular basis—including those taught by visiting faculty—can still be considered as departmental alternates, said Director of the Core Program Susan W. Lewis. Smith also emphasized that classes with prerequisites or without final exams are not excluded from counting for Core credit. Those standards may have been forgotten by faculty and students alike, Lewis...
...courses for Core credit under the relaxed guidelines, Herschbach said. Smith could not be reached for comment last night. The move to give students more departmental options to fulfill Core requirements was discussed at a meeting of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) Wednesday. Classes without final examinations, classes taught by visiting professors or not offered in multiple years, and classes with capped enrollment may now fulfill Core requirements under the relaxed guidelines, according to Prithvi R. Shankar ’09, a student representative at the CUE meeting. Determining which classes will now receive Core credit will occur...