Word: workload
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...another for faculty stars, whom they lure less with money and perquisites than with freedom to conduct research, which usually means light teaching loads and lots of graduate students to do scut work. Summers, scion of a family in the academic discipline with the highest pay and lowest workload of them all--economics--grew up and succeeded spectacularly in this culture. Harvard on his watch enthusiastically raided other universities for top talent. Its professors are among the highest paid in American academe; they teach only 28 weeks a year...
Even Ben-Shahar’s biggest fans agree that the workload for the class is nowhere near as intensive as it is in most Harvard courses. M. Alice Johnson ’06, for example, “liked that Professor Ben-Shahar admitted we wouldn’t be learning a lot of material.” But despite the light workload, Johnson continues, 1504 deserves to be taken seriously. “I’ve heard a few people say they didn’t take the class because it was too fluffy...
...overloaded it in terms of content and work,” said Mills, who cut assignments by half when students complained about the heavy workload and the course’s emphasis on written work...
...Harvard Square with ads. Recently, Cambridge’s own Toscanini’s blanketed the Holyoke Center with countless advertisements, not unlike larger retailers in the Square such as Adidas and Starbucks. The coffee shop’s ads targeted Harvard students by referring to the reading period workload. One such ad read, “During Reading Period drink mild George Howell coffee for better grades.” The end of the ad suggested caffeine consumption improves studying. “It was either this advertisement or a $2 hot chocolate sale,” says seven...
...lengthy comparisons to the Talmud and the Hadith. Students are mercifully relegated to the role of interlocutor, and even then, Russell shows no hesitation with swooping down, fatherly, to clarify and make pronouncements outright.In a land of facilitators, Russell is one of those rare educators.The courses’ workload and Russell are not for everyone—although that matters little since 80 percent of applicants were turned away, and upperclassmen have no chance of enrolling at all. One of the larger ironies of Harvard’s free range education, where students may roam a 938-page course catalog...