Word: teaching
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...administrative politics and academics are like oil and vinegar. They don't mix well, but one usually accompanies the other. Huggins's main task involves finding qualified faculty to teach courses in the department. He and Eileen Southern. Professor of Afro-American Studies and Music, are its only fulltime, tenured professors. Huggins says his current search efforts will result in Dean Rosovsky's offering tenured positions in the department to two scholars early this fall. If the trend of the past decade continues, however, it is doubtful that the two offers will result in appointments to the Harvard faculty. Huggins...
...deliberately separate friends and acquaintances. A set grading curve and a common final, which none of the section leaders sees beforehand, also help alleviate the possibility of bias, Hughes-Hallet says, adding "Just about the only way someone could help a friend get a good grade would be to teach him math...
...knew I wanted to go to Cambridge--that someday I want to teach. I know it's a difficult field for women, and that many departments are cutting back, but you just can't think about these things...
Earlier that spring, a Crimson editorial had attempted to focus objections to the Core. "A major problem with the new Core Curriculum is the attempt by its authors to delineate carefully the structure and content of ... core courses. Whether Faculty members will be willing to teach the types of courses outlined in the report is not clear; the Core proposal might well set up the type of lecture courses that no one likes to teach, and no one likes to take...
Similar problems may crop up in the Moral Reasoning area, committee chairman James Q. Wilson says. "I think we are going to run into a fairly serious problem here because there are so few people who are able to teach it," he says, noting that those few professors familiar enough with the ephemeral combination of law and philosophy that constitutes Moral Reasoning could leave on sabbatical at any time. The problem of over-enrollment in the few remaining courses does not worry Wilson, but they do trouble Wilcox. He estimates that the average size of a Core course is about...