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Jeffrey G. Williamson is not the type of person who takes no for an answer...
Sitting in his spacious Littauer office, Williamson, chair of the economics department and Bell professor of economics, sums up his philosophy succinctly...
...with every class, the quality depends on the teaching, and too many professors use co-taught classes as a forum for their own personal debates rather than for a teaching experience. As Williamson admits, "There's good teaching and there's bad teaching." Courses where the team-teaching experience becomes more of ego trip than a class may attract students, but they do not ultimately add anything to a liberal arts education...
...professors, team-teaching may encourage professors to offer fewer courses if they are teaching more together. While there is no set system across all departments to evaluate the course credit a professor receives for a team-taught course, both Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 and Professor Williamson say that many team-taught courses are only given half of the credit towards professors' course load. This should, in theory, prevent professors from doing half the work and getting all the teaching credit. One hopes, for instance, that the four professors co-teaching Economics 1410 "Public Sector Economics" will...
...Williamson said, co-taught classes don't, "give any Faculty member the license to slack...