Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Core curriculum, as set up by former Dean of the Faculty Henry A. Rosovsky, is intended to give undergraduates a broad, interdisciplinary education. At its best, it is designed to teach ways of thinking and not just knowledge. Limiting the ways in which students are taught to think about economics, as about any other discipline, runs counter to any traditional concept of a liberal arts education...
...trying to represent the views of the mainstream 95 percent of the economic profession," explains head section leaders Lawrence B. Lindsey. Yet for many students, Ec 10 is the only economics course they will ever take. How is it counterproductive to teach the other 5 percent, particularly in a year-long survey that covers everything from opportunity cost to international rates of exchange...
Although the visiting professor will be affiliated with Radcliffe, and will work with Radcliffe students independent of the Harvard structure, a Harvard department may invite the professor to teach a course at Harvard. Press added that several Harvard departments have already submitted nominations for the visiting professorship...
...jeopardizes more than certain privileges, like exemption from taxes. It jeopardizes the church's body and soul: when churches are successful at struggles for temporal power they stand to be corrupted; when unsuccessful, they stand to be persecuted. History and prudence dictate that the ecclesiastical authorities should teach, and leave the question of "who governs" to others...
...examples show that free speech, though extremely important, must still be fitted together with other rights and legitimate interests. The same is true on the campuses of universities, which accord free speech such great importance. Even the right of professors to academic freedom does not mean that they can teach courses outside their field of competence, or abuse their students verbally in an unjustified manner, or use coercive power to force their ideas on unwilling classes. (At the same time, students must give professors the freedom to present their views without fear of disruption or harassment...