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Dean K. Whitla, director of the Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning, said yesterday he believes there is a "high degree of interest today in finding ways of improving writing and criticism of writing...
...Senator: "Many members come in here having already done something interesting; they think about doing this only for a while, then doing something different." Hart, 40, who was George McGovern's campaign manager in 1972, is thinking about challenging Carter for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1980. Senator John Danforth, a freshman Republican from Missouri, calls himself "a citizen on leave to the Government." Some oldtimers regard the career switchers as unprofessional. Louisiana Democrat Lindy Boggs, who was elected in 1973 to a congressional seat that her late husband Hale Boggs had held for 26 years, looks down on them...
...weekend, Lance clearly picked up some support on the 17-member committee. As of last week, the committee apparently was almost evenly divided. Seven Senators leaned toward support of the Budget Director (Democrats Thomas Eagleton, Henry Jackson, John Glenn, Sam Nunn, James Sasser, and Lawton Chiles and Republican John Danforth); six seemed to oppose him (Democrat Abraham Ribicoff and Republicans Charles Percy, Jacob Javits, Charles Mathias, William Roth and H. John Heinz). Four Senators appeared undecided (Democrats Ed Muskie and John McClellan were absent from the hearing, Lee Metcalf said little and Republican Ted Stevens' sentiments were unclear). Among...
Only a few of the proposals are truly innovative. One is for a Center for Excellence in Teaching that would continue the work of the Harvard-Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning and act as a resource for faculty teaching, much as the Bureau of Study Counsel aids student leaning...
...Experiments" is funded by a $12,000 grant from the Harvard-Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning, Karen J. Freeze, a center administrator, said yesterday. Freeze said grants are available to faculty and graduate students interested in teaching improvement activities...