Word: developments
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...friends of mine that had business degrees who were working really menial jobs and thought it was a waste of talent.” William Wright-Swadel, director of Harvard’s Office of Career Services, said he thought that GetConnects could help students develop all-important networks, but that minority students should feel comfortable utilizing all kinds of professional connections, minority or otherwise. “What I don’t want is students thinking that ‘I’m an African-American female and the only people at Harvard who are willing...
...suits, the Governor of Virginia signed a bill last month that prohibits state colleges from penalizing or expelling students "solely" for attempting suicide or seeking mental-health treatment for suicidal thoughts. The law's primary goal is to encourage kids to get help, and it also requires schools to develop policies for dealing with such students...
...significantly enriched courses—courses with broader appeal, compelling goals, and a capacity to actively engage students in solving problems, improving basic skills, and handling authentic materials. Most faculty members will not need to do additional teaching, but virtually all will need to sharpen their teaching skills and develop broader course offerings (often using research assistance or a month of paid summer time). Compelling and effective courses will be in demand for secondary fields and electives as well as general education—and three years from now we should see a higher proportion of undergraduate courses with lively...
...offer excellent teacher training to our PhDs. But teaching fellowships have been tied, in a cookie-cutter fashion, to lecture-course sections enrolling 15 to 18 undergraduates apiece. Faculty are often loath to try new course formats for fear of not employing enough TFs; and graduate students do not develop a full range of pedagogical skills. As reform proceeds, the College and the Graduate School must encourage additional, more flexible deployment of teaching fellows, not to substitute for faculty engagement with undergraduates, but to allow TFs to partner with faculty in seminars that combine lectures and discussions, to help design...
...January 2006, the mayor appointed a new task force to work with the University as it prepared its Master Plan, which outlines development for 250 acres of Harvard’s holdings. Boston must approve the document before Harvard can begin to develop its property...