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...dealing with sexual harassment--that's pretty unbelievable," says Vanessa A. Davila '84, a member of the student-faculty Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE). "Unfortunately he's not the entire Faculty," she adds...
...loosening of the requirements "is one of the best things he's done," Davila says. "A lot of people are really happy now that they can get credit...
...problem. Davila says, is the decentralized nature of the University. Verba can pinpoint problems and make suggestions on how to improve teaching, but he really just cannot tell departments or professors how to run their courses. "If individual professors don't want to listen they don't have to," she says, adding. "We see a lot of improvement, but every year we seem to talk about the quality of sections. Yes, you do all the studies but you don't have much impact--I don't really feel that section leader quality has improved that much...
...lightening the burden and allowing more Women's Studies concentrators. The drive has been going on for a long time, but it has been conducted with little help from within the administration. "With something like women's studies, you need someone to take leadership, and Verba did not," Davila notes, but is quick to add that "there is only so much...
...Chin and Davila emphasize that for his replacement students are looking for a man as obviously committed to undergraduate education as Verba. "It's clear that he has a lot more than an administrative stake in it," says Colarossi...