Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...primary causes of all this talk are classes that continue with papers and exams well into reading period. There is no reason to believe that the people who teach these classes will not simply extend the work into the "buffer period" of two days despite efforts to restrict work during that period. As Mr. Barron and Mr. Saal pointed out, reading period was "originally set aside...as lecture-free time." Yet, CUE Chairman Dean Steven Ozment himself said "No faculty member will dictate to another how to teach their courses. Once you're in a class you play...
...handle the issue of excessive work during reading period is to insist that professors do their jobs in accordance with the college's rules. "Once in your class you play by the rules of the master," says Dean Ozment. Evidently, the dean has lost perspective. When professors agree to teach at Harvard, they are not granted little fiefdoms over which to exercise absolute control. Nevertheless, the dean's works are more relevant to the faculty than students. When we accept admission to Harvard, students agree to abide by the rules. If we cannot operate in accordance with the college...
...flush, in the day of M.B.A.s and corporate specialization? "Big corporations won't come to small liberal arts colleges to recruit," Ponder laments. "They want engineering students." Nonetheless, he has a plan: "We will call attention to our own, a person who can read, write, spell, think. You can teach him the technique of running your shop...
...fellows are required to teach a non-credit study group and are encouraged to participate in other aspects of University life, says Donovan...
...This is more of a challenge to me," she says. "It means a lot to teach someone to read and to associate things with numbers. I don't like to work for the sake of working. I wanted to do something that would make a difference...