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...allowing more departmental courses to count for Core credit at Tuesday’s full faculty meeting. The meeting revealed that “there seemed to be two different ways of approaching” general education reform, with one group calling for further discussion and another calling for progress this year, Ryan said...
...addition to faculty advising, but it would be improper to roll academic advising functions into a modified prefect program. Combining the roles of academic advisor and social coordinator will not be an improvement on the current structure, but will instead lead to superficial academic advice and will impair the progress prefects have made in building a sense of community in freshman dormitories. Rather, freshmen will be best served by a separate peer advising program in addition to a modified prefect program.When prefects do their job, they are a font of knowledge on the House system, extracurricular activities, and College life...
However, Bok argues that the sluggishness of colleges’ progress is a problem of method, not of intention. Faculty are not apathetic or lazy, he writes, only ignorant of research identifying active teaching methods as superior to the old-fashioned lecture. He writes that “faculties seem inclined to use research and experimentation to understand and improve every institution, process and human activity except their...
...well-aware of the difficulty of qualitatively evaluating academic progress. Nonetheless, he presents specific directives—such as revising faculty tenure procedures to include evaluations of teaching ability—to rouse the sleeping giants of American undergraduate education from their collective slumber...
...Summers’ resignation, we’ve been constantly reminded of the dearth of student-faculty interaction on this campus. While solving this problem in the purely academic sphere is daunting given our institution’s extensive inertia, far fewer hurdles stand in the way of making progress on this divide through the extracurricular route...