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...Marcia A. Testa has been teaching biostatistics at the School of Public Health for over 30 years, and she said that the biggest challenge in preparing the new course material was how to teach introductory material without formally introducing...
...suppose I can try to tell a lot of jokes at 8:30 in the morning when I teach biostatistics in lecture,” Testa said, chuckling. “Now I don’t have...
...seven minutes often proves insufficient. CUE members are also exploring the possibility of revising the scheduling system. Instead of hour-long blocks, the new blocks could last as long as 75 minutes, with professors having discretion over how to allocate this time. For example, a professor could opt to teach a 55-minute class and follow it with a 20-minute discussion section. (The CUE members did note, though, that the proposed changes might not assuage undergraduate concern over having enough time to eat lunch.) Beyond scheduling considerations, the committee is also researching the relationship between the frequency of class...
...apolitical” faculty members. In reality, many conservative hawks who support such measures, including the notorious David Horowitz, are precisely the sources of the political radicalism they publicly decry—only on the far right. Horowitz’s stated intention, to “teach students how to think, not what to think,” is a laudable one—yet his sponsoring of such “truth-revealing” (which are ultimately more like hate-spreading) conferences like Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week on campuses across the nation reveals the ulterior motive therein...
...crisis hotline" between Muslim and Christian leaders to help avoid or quell religious discord, such as the violent protests in the Islamic world after the Danish papers published cartoons some deemed offensive to the Prophet Mohammed. Kalin also wants to fix a day each year when Muslim leaders teach their faithful about Christianity, and vice-versa. And finally, some Muslims would like a debate that goes beyond the Pope's call to a "dialogue based on reason." Kalin wants an acknowledgment of common "Judeo-Christian-Islamic" roots, even if the Vatican sees the story of salvation beginning with...