Word: workload
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...humanities course will be co-taught by Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand and Cogan University Professor of the Humanities Stephen J. Greenblatt.Having multiple players behind the podium during a semester means less lecturing but more pre-class coordination for each professor. Despite the workload, professors say team teaching provides the kind of peer review usually only available for their research. Students say their team teachers’ different lecture styles are refreshing and the courses generally present a coherent narrative while exposing the complexities of academia.PICKING TEAMSTeaching teams play differently: members will either take...
...Derek C. Bok’s presidency, which began in 1971, would bring significant changes to the fellows’ workload. “As both Harvard and its bureaucracy grew,” the Kellers note, “the Corporation became more detached from the mundane realities of University governance...
...charge of "forests, roads, schools, hospitals, fences, canals and agriculture," writes Gilmour. "And on top of all this, he also had to keep himself accessible, to allow people to come and sit on his verandah and 'pay their respects' and hand in their petitions." It was a tremendously diverse workload, and the ICS men had little formal training to prepare for it. They learned fast, and had to rely on instinct and common sense...
...going to be one of those 40-year-old guys who’s reliving their youth.”On the academic side, Cheek is not worried about going back to school. He understands Byerly Hall’s concerns about how he would handle the workload, but he also insists that he has the inner drive and desire to succeed at any level.“I wouldn’t have applied if I couldn’t handle the workload,” Cheek says. “Even with speedskating, I was never the most...
...formal academic advisors. Instead, the College should establish a new peer advising program alongside a better funded and better managed Prefect Program. Freshmen would benefit invaluably from the kind of honest and practical advice upperclassmen can provide. Peer advisors could tell freshmen which Core has a lighter workload and which professor just reads from a script in lecture. Moreover, first-year students should be assigned an advisor in a broad field like social sciences, sciences, or humanities. When they enter the College, freshmen would indicate which general area they are interested in so that they would be assigned an upperclass...