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...this is where the issue hits home for undergraduates. Consider: Last year over 1000 students signed a petition on behalf of Stellar's appointment to a lifetime post--an effort that came to nothing. Brinkley and Lee consistently teach some of the most popular courses in the book and bear a great burden of their department's teaching load. Brinkley and Starr, a Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist, now at Princeton, also practice a cogent writing style in their academic work that promotes accessibility to their research. The University itself honored Lee with the Levenson Award as Harvard's most outstanding...
...Especially in the area of ethics, we want to increase cooperative efforts with other schools. We want to teach people that religion affects the way they live their lives," he said...
Shepsle says that while he enjoys teaching, research is what he likes best. "It's the party-line--I've been taught to say it. You teach to put the bread and butter on the table, but your true love is your research," he says. "And it's absolutely true, especially at first. Also, to be any good at teaching, you have to be an active researcher, and vice versa...
Civics has a way of turning into cheerleading, especially in the balmy sun. And when our schools no longer teach citizens to think for themselves, that's not just bad education. It's a good way to destroy a democracy...
...House (NBC). Wilford Brimley here reminds us that grandparents, long the most idealized of TV figures, can sometimes be crotchety as well. When his recently widowed daughter-in-law and three grandchildren move in, he welcomes them but grumpily resists the change in routine. To teach the children a lesson, he throws into the garbage the toys that they have left on the floor. Half the time he does not even look up from his newspaper when they are talking to him. Our House tugs at the heartstrings a little too aggressively, and Brimley's big scene (telling...