Word: teach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Economics Department is a collection of some 60 faculty members who have been hired on the basis of their research and their publications in the field of neo-classical economics. Even if the department requires them to devote more time to teaching it is questionable whether they will be capable of it. Graduate students in the department claim that there are only three or four tenured professors who can adequately teach a course...
...cost-about $20,000. In all, well-wishers have donated more than $100,000 in free equipment, including two computers, one of which will control the telescope. The biggest gift came two weeks ago: a $76,000 grant from New York's Research Corporation. "I could teach a graduate level course in scrounging," says Albert Merville, 34, who combed the West Coast seeking benefactors. The six still have a long way to go in raising funds for the observatory's buildings. "Right now it's still the you-name-it observatory," says Merville. "The name goes...
...phrase is "as taught at Harvard." Not only does the report criticize the content of graduate courses, it scores the quality of instruction. One message is that Harvard Economics professors do not teach enough graduate courses, and that students consider them "uncaring, unapproachable, and inaccessible...
...discussed the "concrete problem of improving tutorials, applying new technological developments to teaching, providing incentives for faculty members to teach, and improving contact between professors and undergraduates...
Orderly Fashion. The decline in writing ability shows up even at Harvard, where all undergraduates must take a twelve-week course in expository writing. "We try to teach them to write a simple, clear sentence that says what they mean and then arrange those sentences in some orderly fashion," says English Professor Gwynne Evans. "Most of them don't know how to do that when they come here." The discipline was too much for one Harvard student. "It nearly drove me crazy," he says. "I tried to write what I was really feeling and I got all these irrelevant...