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...Expect that the best teachers won’t get tenure. In my class, a large number of the students taking math courses appreciated the apparently effortless way one teacher was able to teach a course and a half in one semester. The tenured faculty was not impressed. As explained at our 35th reunion, tenure is a commitment that could last 30 to 40 years. The gifted teacher may burn out. Scholarly productivity is more likely to endure. My experience as a faculty member at a non-Harvard medical school gives credence to the concept. However, I still think that...
...clues as to why many developing communities stagnate in poverty. I believe it is the failure to understand these less obvious driving forces of poverty that cause even giant organizations like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to fail in major development projects. But most importantly, these experiences teach us the value of perseverance in development work while ignoring bureaucratic fluff...
...young people who share Kennedy’s vision, his life can teach us that even in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges, history’s long arc indeed bends toward justice. For Democrats moving forward with an ambitious agenda for reforming healthcare, energy, and education policy (to name only a few), Kennedy’s moral voice should continue to resonate. Arguments based on the nuances of legislative language and cost-benefit analysis are indispensable to sound public policy, but should never drown out debate over the broader moral imperatives that Kennedy understood and articulated so well...
...that are being used today for NMR testing. Ham, who has known about the appointment since May, wrote in an e-mailed statement yesterday that his new post will allow him to conduct more adventurous research but will not lessen his commitment to his students. This fall, Ham will teach Engineering Sciences 154: Electronic Devices and Circuits, a course that received a 4.0 of 5.0 rating in the Q Guide. Ham received an instructor rating of 4.7 out of 5.0. “I have taught one undergraduate course every year for the past 7 years...
Sections: 1. Weekly meeting with graduate students of varying teaching abilities and intelligence (see TF). 2. Meant to complement courses taught by big-name professors too busy to teach the important details that will appear on the final...