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...want to teach at Harvard,’” says Jasanoff. “You can think it, but it may not be a reality.”STUDENT-TEACHER RELATIONSSeveral recent-graduates-turned-faculty have the advantage of firsthand understanding of the College experience.Having been an undergrad “helps me relate to [my students] better than I otherwise might,” Nelson says. “If you enjoy the place and feel connected to it and feel invested in its future, I think that probably makes you a more committed teacher...
...decade ago, and it tries to accommodate, within reason. During orientation, staff members put photos online almost in real time so families can keep an eye on their kids. "You don't want to just push helicopter parents away entirely," says Angela Cottrell, associate director of residential education. Even undergrad residential advisers like sophomore Deno Saclarides do some parental hand-holding. After a call from the mother of one of his freshman advisees, Saclarides says, "I wrote on his door, 'Sweetie, I haven't heard from you in a while. Call...
Last spring, one of Magliozzi’s bloggers was asked by the course’s professor to remove his or her blog or face expulsion. The former undergrad, who wishes to remain anonymous, immediately took down the blog. The student still believes passionately in the site, however, saying, “I understand that professors’ words are often their intellectual property, but I think what we are paying for in education is more the chance to interact personally with that professor…as well as the opportunity for writing and feedback. I think the availability...
...Despite the undergrad uptick, Moretto says about 60% of the Michigan patrons are graduate students, who often have families of their own to support. Jana Simmons, 26, a Ph.D candidate in biochemistry, started going to the food bank last summer shortly after her daughter was born. Simmons' husband is a certified teacher, but in the state's struggling economy, she says, he hasn't been able to find a classroom job in over four years, working as a roofer instead. Simmons' stipend, meanwhile, "isn't enough to live on," she says. Paying for day-care and diapers...
...pursue theater as a career, the A.R.T. plays a strikingly minimal role in campus life today. Few apart from those students heavily involved in dramatic arts can say that Harvard and the A.R.T., a university affiliate, have been as nurturing to their artistic development. In fact, most undergrads outside of theater have little notion of what the A.R.T. is besides a clever acronym for the concrete building on Brattle Street.“It’s a shame that students that aren’t involved in theater don’t know about the A.R.T...