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Some things are good in concept but awful in practice. Like “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,” Sprite Remix, and Communism. Or Alcohol Edu, the “online prevention program” that all rising freshman were required to suffer through this year to teach us how not to kill ourselves by alcohol. A course which supposedly takes “2-3 hours to complete,” Alcohol Edu is so rife with technical errors and misleading information that it is more likely to be a complete waste of twice that amount...
...campus (as MIT does) and eat at dining halls in January, will raise significant barriers for students already struggling to pay their tuition bills. Moreover, we worry that most faculty would merely use a J-term as a time to immerse themselves in research unfettered by the demands of teaching. We’re doubtful that there would be sufficient professors enthused enough to create the innovative and time-intensive small seminar courses that a J-Term would demand. And incentives that could be put into place—like exempting faculty from classes during the regular terms if they...
...Christopher James Bishop, 35, taught German at Virginia Tech and helped oversee an exchange program with a German university. Bishop decided which German-language students at Virgina Tech could attend the Darmstadt University of Technology to improve their German. "He would teach them German in Blacksburg, and he would decide which students were able to study" abroad, Darmstadt spokesman Lars Rosumek said...
...preclude students from developing the skills needed to become effective child advocates.“In general, top-tier law schools are sending students to work for the richest and most prestigious members of society,” she says. “There is no systematic training to teach students to go out and correct injustice.”Judith S. Kaye, chief judge of New York, agrees. With many law students from schools like Harvard overlooking careers in child advocacy for positions in Washington or on Wall Street, children will remain one of the most underserved groups...
...zero. The new dean is the only person who can allocate the funds needed to reward the development of new and exciting classes and pedagogical methods, and he or she must make doing so one of the top budgetary priorities.Tenured professors, however, are often not the best people to teach broad introductory courses that require a lot of legwork to found and run. Beyond juggling teaching, research, and advising, most professors are specialists and want to teach a course focused on the particular area in which they are an expert, which explains why so many Core courses are narrow...