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...course, History 1757, “History of Latin America to 1825, ” before December because it worked better with the class’ schedule. It was a “good fit with the number of students I have and the type of course I teach,” he wrote in an e-mail. Though Maxwell said he is unsure if there is an increasing trend towards earlier finals, he would support such a move. “It would be much healthier for everyone to have a sensible winter break and a sensible time...
...such complaints expose an often overlooked double standard: We expect our professors to teach us the skills we need to know, yet we expect our professors to somehow innately know how to teach without ever having been taught how to do so. Just as our abilities to craft theses don’t simply materialize in the night, professors are not hatched from graduate schools knowing how to teach. Teaching itself is a skill that must be learned and taught...
There has been plenty of finger-wagging lately over the quality of undergraduate instruction at Harvard: “The professors can’t teach!” we students claim, pointing to consonants on our transcripts and snoozing peers in lecture. We’ve got reason to complain: We’re here to learn, and in order for us to understand how to do something, someone needs to teach...
...class “is probably the most difficult course in chemistry to teach in terms of keeping the students interested,” Kuchta says. “It just shows his interest in education...
...former students, James M. Poterba ’80, who now chairs the economics department at MIT.Born in 1910 in Germany, Musgrave, who received a Ph.D in political economy from Harvard, taught here from 1937 until 1941, when he left for a post at the Federal Reserve.After various teaching stints, including at Princeton, Musgrave returned to Harvard in 1965 with tenured appointments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and at Harvard Law School.He also took prominent economic advising roles in Washington, as well as with foreign governments, from Colombia to South Korea. Musgrave died in Santa Cruz, Calif., where...