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Since 2007, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has expanded its collaboration with the Bok Center—which focuses on undergraduate teaching??on a series of initiatives that seek to combat the language barrier between TFs and students in the classroom...
...fact, Ian makes about as much as he did when he was teaching??around $50,000 a year. But there’s certainly a great deal less stress than before. The self-professed “night owl” likes that he can stay up until five a.m. and sleep in until noon. Ian suffers from mild carpal-tunnel syndrome, but that doesn’t stop him from playing five or six days a week, occasionally eight hours in a day. He usually has no more than 10 tables open (He has a friend with...
...Art”—studies how art travels and creates a web of communication between disparate sites. In her time at Harvard, Roberts—the three-time recipient of the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for Excellence in the Work of Undergraduates and in the Art of Teaching??has duly accrued recognition for her pedagogy, Kelsey said. “‘Dedicated’ is a weak word to use to describe her devotion to her students and her scholarship,” Kelsey said. “She works amazingly hard...
...Literature is not just a second-order phenomenon. It does cultural work in the world.” Garber’s newest work, “Shakespeare and Modern Culture”—which is also the name of a course she is currently teaching??is certainly in line with the rest of her oeuvre. Garber says that her objective in focusing her attention on 10 specific plays through critical essays that expound on certain universal themes was to explore the interdependent relationship between Shakespeare and popular culture, especially by tracing the playwright?...
...conferences like Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week on campuses across the nation reveals the ulterior motive therein. The call for political neutrality in academia is clearly misinformed and ultimately misguided. First and foremost, the political leanings of professors are poor litmus tests for their intellect, pedagogical aptitude, or enthusiasm for teaching??all of which are more important considerations in the hiring of professors and the development of young minds. Secondly, the idea that liberal—or untraditional—scholarship is undesirable is one fundamentally opposed to the ideal of academia, which has proven most influential when...