Word: professionals
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...Harvard's way is the way you'd learn a foreign language if you were just thrown into the streets of Paris--it's like Berlitz," says Roman L. Weil, professor of accounting and director of the Institute of Professional Accounting at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. "I don't teach Berlitz. It's not merely how to get along. We want to go deeper than that--we want our people to be leaders in their profession...
Rickey Ross, 40, a Los Angeles narcotics investigator, was stopped by cops for driving erratically. Ross, an 18-year veteran, was accompanied by a prostitute, though he insisted that he did not know about her profession. The woman said they were smoking cocaine.
"I don't think there are going to be a lot of people saying they want to teach past 70. Most people I know really want to leave at age 65," says Lowell Professor of the Humanties William Alfred '49. "It doesn't look like a tough profession but it...
The dean also said that while she favors experimentation in alternative teacher certification, the Bush proposal might present certain problems. Under the new program, people who have mastered a subject in their profession can bypass certification programs and teach without training.
Teachers usually consider their work a lifetime profession, like doctors or clergy, and look askance at colleagues who "defect" to more lucrative or less demanding jobs. But the traffic is not just one way. A growing number of professionals are turning to teaching in midcareer, taking pay cuts and accepting sacrifices in order to pursue their late-found vocation. Says John Kean, chairman of the department of curriculum and instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: "They are coming into education in droves...