Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...satisfied" with the teaching. He added that the annual $5000 prize for instruction, set up three years ago by John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, had done much to "recognize good teaching in the department." Graduate students sit on the committee to choose the preferred teacher each year...
...good to meet you," he replied, beckoning to a nearby security guard to escort the young admirers to the exit. "You know, from an early age, I didn't get no respect--no respect at all. Not from my parents, not from my dog; the mailman bit me; the teacher wouldn't put me in the corner, only because she kept me away from sharp objects; my mother...
...fact when Helen Frankenthaler first exhibited one of her early abstract paintings, a teacher of hers asked her why she was exhibiting her paint rags. But Frankenthaler did not rise to her present fame by dabbling idly and relying on her name and good fortune to pull her through. Modern artists, believe it or not, have theory behind their work--complicated and highly-philosophical theory at times--that often ends up being a more important influence on their followers than the actual works...
...hallway, a junior History concentrator leans against a wall and wonders out loud about a system that will kick his favorite teacher, an assistant professor. out of the University in a couple of years...
...discussion of junior faculty problems the issue of tenure raises its ugly head. If the undergraduates' major demand on the system is for better education, the junior faculty's must be for more secure employment. The struggle then is to balance the needs of the student and the young teacher and the University. Says Kiely, "I don't see how to solve that except to keep some kind of tenure system and keep a good rotating junior faculty. The rotating junior faculty refreshes the system. But if tenure were somehow or other to be given to all these wonderful young...