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...were not being pushed or herded, but they were being encouraged.”A vote on revamping the Core, a major portion of the curricular review, could come as early as May.Bok also played a central role in advising a committee on teaching led by Theda Skocpol, the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. A January report from Skocpol’s committee advocated linking faculty salaries to teaching performance as well as research.Skocpol said that Bok considered her committee’s work “a very important endeavor” and that...
...that incorporates teaching, publishing, and your own research and writing,” Carter said. “Mentors recognize this.” Graduate students could nominate their professors, and according to Carter, there were over 90 nomination letters for more than forty faculty nominees. GSAS Dean Theda Skocpol called the awards “a wonderful thing” that “generate a sense of community.” “I’m hoping before long that the descriptions of what those mentors have done to earn these wonderful awards will be posted...
...about 120 faculty members.The report, drafted by the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development and published in January, seeks to address growing concerns about how Faculty members balance teaching and research, according to the committee’s chair, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Theda Skocpol.In the midst of this year’s curricular reforms—the introduction of more than 30 secondary fields, delayed concentration choice, changes in advising—the report on teaching and learning has been most significantly overshadowed by the ongoing debate over general education and its future...
...list of contenders for the deanship considered by Interim President Derek C. Bok last spring included former Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Dean Peter T. Ellison, Government Department Chair Nancy L. Rosenblum, and current GSAS Dean Theda Skocpol, according to two individuals close to the search process. Faust was also seriously considered by Bok at the time, the individuals said...
...Theda Skocpol, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, counts herself as an occasional reader, but cautioned that “information and misinformation can travel on the blog...