Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question plaguing Bok is tough: How does a university teach a student ethics without actually forcing certain moral values on him or her. He responds to it by pulling together many of his arguments from past speeches and interviews--the importance of applied ethics and moral reasoning classes, community service, ethical standards of the institution and the university's "environment...
About 25 percent, or 1500, of Cornell's graduate students teach approximately one course per semester and receive a basic stipend of $6400, plus a tuition benefit, Gardner says...
Most of MIT's graduate students teach before taking their general exams, after which they become research assistants for professors. Since most people write their dissertations on the topic for which they are research assistants, this helps them in the long run, says Jeffrey Meredith, president of the Graduate Student Council...
...principal complaint is that members' median salary of $5460 does not cover the administration's estimated cost of living of $8370. T.A.'s have also complained that they put in unpaid overtime and are not trained to teach, and that teaching interferes with their writing dissertations, according to a reporter at The Yale Daily News...
Graduate students are also beginning to take on the job of T.A. in their first year, although they were not intended to teach until their third year, says Ray Lurie, former press liaison...