Word: tutoring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Returning Mather House residents will see a new face in the Allston Burr Senior Tutor’s office this semester. Kira Petersen, Mather’s resident government tutor, will act as the senior tutor during Rena Fonseca’s leave of absence this semester. A fifth-year graduate school student, Petersen was the non-resident government tutor two years ago and is also a concentration advisor in the government tutorial office...
House Masters Sandra A. Naddaff ’75 and Leigh G. Hafrey ’73 appointed Petersen as acting senior tutor last spring after Fonseca’s announcement that she would be taking a semester off. Fonseca said last May that she would spend her sabbatical traveling and writing a book, as well as developing a new class she plans to teach this spring...
...philosophical dispute is far more than a historical curiosity. Through the centuries, China has struggled to find its proper place in the world. The pendulum has shifted back and forth between openness and insularity, between the spirit embodied in Zheng He and that of, say, Yang Rong, the Confucian tutor to the Emperor who argued for rolling back the power of eunuch adventurers like Zheng He. The Confucians won; China wouldn't emerge again as a naval force until the past decade or so, as it began to build up a sizable fleet, probe disputed islands like the Spratlys...
Like Reagan too, Bush was unschooled in foreign policy when he ran for President. Along the way, he absorbed the passion of his briefers, Star Wars true believers from the Reagan days brought together by Rice to tutor him in the canons of their strategic religion. Those voices evidently captured his imagination, and now in his Administration, led vigorously by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, they urge...
...addition to teaching several popular courses in the government department, Richardson was also the Head Tutor for six years and received several teaching awards from students and faculty, including the Levenson Award from the Undergraduate Council—the highest teaching award from the student body...