Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...executive board of the Black Students Association (BSA) met last week with President Bok and Dean Rosovsky to demand that the Faculty establish a multidisciplinary committee to search for Blacks to teach at the University...
William J. Skocpol, associate professor of Physics and a member of the council, submitted a proposal calling for the hiring of "teaching associates" to teach sections and tutorials...
...position is "not attractive to everyone, but it may meet the needs of some, and it would help fill gaps in the availability of more traditional instructional staff who would normally teach tutorials and sections," Skocpol said last week...
Rivers is troubled by what he perceives as a lack of "real sophisticated stuff going on." At Harvard, he sees a lot of rote recitation but very little serious inquiry, and he hopes this will change. He says he wishes to write and teach after he graduates, and stresses that, despite its problems, he enjoys Harvard, likes many of the people here and sees a lot of potential for growth. He also likes the living arrangements. After all, "I'm eating better now than I have in ten years," he says...
...aware of these potential problems in the sophomore tutorials," Judd says. "The dilemma is trying to achieve two goals at once. For one thing, we think it's important to have house-based tutorials. On the other hand, the problem is trying to find something that the tutor can teach that will be interesting to all the students...