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And Columbia's director of career placement, Athena P. Constantine, said students' concern about starting salaries has increased markedly in recent years. "There is a heavy emphasis on 'I just want to make a lot of money,'" she said.
Junior faculty surveyed split on whether this emphasis was a good thing. On the one hand, says one assistant professor, "The person who is just a good teacher may not appeal to the next generation down the road," while a good researcher is more likely to keep abreast of developments...
The course was then revised to reflect more current reading and to provide more emphasis on analysis; it emphasizes the qualities that I am suggesting fall under the rubric of learning how to learn.
The aesthetes frequented the Fogg Museum, where Paul Sachs produced platoons of future museum directors in his museum course, and the intellectual elite concentrated in history and literature, where a remarkable group of tutors like Perry Miller, F.O. Matthiessen and Kenneth Murdoch created an atmosphere of excitement for whole generations...
No more. Gray and her colleagues have set about the difficult task of image changing. Because of the decline in the number of students entering Ph.D. programs, the University of Chicago is putting more emphasis on undergraduates. In 1972 there were only 2,000; this year, 2,950. Given the...