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...still doesn't serve the purpose of the teaching of writing to freshmen, which is to keep good teachers and get rid of bad ones," Packer said. Instead, Expos should develop a personnel policy which would link the length of preceptors' terms to their performance, Packer said. Another former preceptor agreed that such a personnel policy would be a good idea...
...could help them to attract better people," said Schwartz, now an assistant writing professor at Wellesley College. "When Richard Marius was in charge of the program, he bemoaned the fact that after they changed the length of service from eight years to four years, it really compromised his efforts to recruit teachers. [The extra year] makes it a more attractive...
...country, all right, a place of blasted American dreams and macho power games. There was a time (Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love) when that country was an essential stop on any tour of the American theater. No longer. Simpatico, Shepard's first new full-length play in nearly a decade, is a pretty arid stretch of land...
Although some audience members criticized the event's length, audience members gave a standing ovation, and most reactions were positive...
...Advisory groups are] a favorite technique the administration uses to hold people at arm's length," says one HUCTW member and Kennedy School employee. "Their [day-to-day] concerns are a lot different from ours. We know of people with families who make hard decisions as it is about allocating money...