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...College should provide incentives for good faculty members to teach these courses. When there are no such faculty, Harvard has a responsibility to make more liberal use of visiting professors and new hires to fill gaps. In particular, student input on course demand should be an important factor in faculty hiring decisions. This is a notable break from the way that faculty hiring generally takes place at Harvard and other research universities—traditionally, prospective faculty have been evaluated on the merits of their research alone. But if one believes, as we do, that Harvard ought to use teaching...
...request that West stay at home for a bit and write to be the height of impertinence. At the time it seemed to me that this was just telling the emperor to go buy some clothes: I make a princely $85,000 after a dozen years here, and teach and publish quite a lot, really...
...haven’t met Larry, but once when I was worried about a seminar I badly wanted to teach, and mentioned this to him in an e-mail about the first no-confidence vote, he actually got on the phone and wrote back to tell me they had already approved the course. When a colleague of mine disagreed with a tenure decision in another department, Larry rang him and talked long and earnestly with him. This was an approachable president willing to listen to others if they spoke up. He wanted to change things, to reform the Core...
...they should get a sound education to prepare them for productive and fulfilled lives. A majority of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and apparently the Corporation think the university should be run for the benefit of the faculty, that is, that they should be permitted to research and teach whatever they prefer, regardless of its long-term relevance to students or coherence as a curriculum...
...column in the New York Times last week, John Tierney claimed that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences rejected University President Lawrence H. Summers because he tried to get us to take undergraduate teaching seriously. Harvard faculty, Tierney claims, refuse to teach freshmen, shunt off their work to low-paid graduate students, and have to be pushed “to teach survey courses and other basics...