Word: teaching
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What would he do after Jan. 20? Not run for office again, he said, or go back to the peanut business; that would be "in appropriate for an ex-President." Instead, said Carter, he would work on his memoirs, write a book on the presidency, lecture, maybe teach, and "become a good fly fisherman...
Some professors said they opposed the plan for a reading period because it intruded upon teaching freedom. However, Andrew Wiget, assistant professor of English and Native American studies, said, "I don't see how the creation of a space legislates what I teach...
University and U.S. officials said yesterday "encouraging" developments have increased the chances that a Polish dissident poet, who was invited to teach here more than two years ago but has been unable to obtain an exit visa, will be permitted to leave Poland...
That attitude, however, creates a political problem for the subcommittees, which are trying desperately this year to encourage Faculty members to teach in the Core. Because the program has not reached its course goal and because professors are not clamoring to get into the Core, the program cannot afford to lose offerings. Therefore, many subcommittee members believe that initiating a strict evaluation process now would be a mistake...
Resistance to the idea of professors evaluating professors--something unheard of at Harvard--stands as a major stumbling block to creating a functioning evaluation system for the Core, several members of Core committees admit privately. A simple solution, it seems, would be to tell professors who want to teach in the Core that if they don't like the thought of their colleagues evaluating them then they should not be part of the Core...