Word: teacher
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Some faculty members said Brinkley's strongprofessional reputation and reputation as anaccomplished teacher made his review an early testof the University's commitment to a recentlyannounced faculty plan that aims to increase thenumber of junior faculty receiving tenure...
...someone where there's enough evidence toknow he's going to be very good and who hasdistinguished himself as a teacher," thedepartment member said...
Brinkley's tenure denial was the second for aHistory Department member in less than fourmonths. Associate Professor of History Bradford A.Lee, who like Brinkley is an expert on20th-century American history and a highlyregarded teacher, failed to win a lifetime postearly last summer...
...Head of the Class is a family show in spirit, if not in fact. Howard Hesseman plays a substitute teacher who takes over a high school class of geniuses. The students are fiercely motivated (one girl is so crushed at getting a B that she has grounded herself), but Hesseman knows more about life and takes on the role of surrogate father. The pilot episode was overstuffed with characterization, but the funny premise and Hesseman's laid-back way with a line make the show one of the most promising comedies of the fall...
...clever young North African was a teacher of rhetoric who, in his 32 years, had explored such fashionable beliefs as Manicheism and skepticism. Lately, living in Milan, he had been drawn intellectually toward Christianity through the preaching of Bishop Ambrose, but resisted full commitment, partly because of personal circumstances. He had fathered a son out of wedlock by one mistress and had recently begun living with another while he was waiting for the woman with whom he had arranged a social-climbing betrothal to reach marriageable...