Word: teached
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...Commissioner Edward M. Fleischman '54 said that Shad gave money to Harvard for a program that would approach ethics from a variety of angles. "The chairman is no visionary, and he's no fool. His attitude is multi-dimensional, and part of his attitude is that you have to teach ethics along with the rest," Fleischman said. "Part of the job is to give an official imprimateur to the role of ethics, showing what the problems...
Kennedy School Professor Dennis Thompson, who will lead Harvard's new ethics program, initiated by President Bok this fall, said that hiring outside experts to teach ethics is not always the perfect solution. "Ethics has to take root among the faculty members themselves. It cannot be grafted on. But that does not mean people from the outside can't help," Thompson said...
While Thompson said he would like to see the Business School hire theologians and philosophers to teach ethics courses in the MBA program, Harvard is committed to its case study method of teaching business, which would require an ethicist to have a strong foundation in business as well...
Then, this winter Assistant Professor of History Catherine Clinton--the only woman Americanist and the only expert on American women's history at the University--was blocked in her bid for a promotion to the level of associate professor. Together the three professors teach nearly one half of all the department's American history offerings...
Earlier this year Secretary of Education William J. Bennett called on the nation's colleges and universities to teach the "facts of American history" and "a systematic familiarization with our own Western tradition of learning...