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Soon after his arrival, he instituted two informal committees, one on financial resources and one on educational policy, that would engineer dramatic changes—including substantial reductions in concentration requirements and doubling the number of freshman seminars??without any technical authority. Knowles’ implicit backing of the committees enabled sizable policy changes to be implemented expeditiously, without bogging down in debate at Faculty meetings...
However, in the math department all that is required of undergraduate CAs, the most inexperienced of all section leaders, are two seminars??one about the challenges of undergraduates teaching undergraduates and an orientation session by the department...
...students, and focused in depth on one specialized subject of interest to the professor—from calculating pi in Freshman Seminar 5 to searching for extraterrestrial intelligence in Freshman Seminar 35: “Are We Alone?” This structure contributes significantly to the seminars?? success, as students actively participate in meaningful discussion without competition for grades and under the guidance of a professor with a passionate interest in the material...