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...name. Many superstars are just too busy to give loads of time to their courses--and considering the temptations offered by fame at Harvard, we cannot put the blame only on them. If Harvard valued teaching more--and increased the size of the faculty to increase the faculty-student ratio and to spread the administrative obligations of faculty among more professors--perhaps all professors, including the superstars, would be able to devote more time to their interaction with students. In my opinion, every professor should teach an undergraduate section in their larger lecture courses, the way many professors at Princeton...
...added that he believes the club's gender ratio is comparable to any other campus group, "except for the Radcliffe Union of Students...
...soulless. This line of thinking also lays blame at Lucas' door for the even more soulless likes of The Rock, along with responsibility for the so-called blockbuster mentality that currently plagues Hollywood. By way of a response, his publicists have even compiled statistics showing that Hollywood's ratio of "art films" to "blockbuster-type" movies has actually increased since...
...does Harvard, a school with so many resources and talented faculty, so often land us in impersonal lecture halls and sections? What are other-schools doing differently? U.S. News also noted that our student to faculty ratio is twelve to one, four more students per professor than at Princeton. Proportionally, they have 50 percent more faculty members than we do, a fact that spells larger classes and less personal attention...
...more importantly, faculty members must teach and must be rewarded for teaching well. So many appointments require little to no teaching, affording the professor independence and freedom to proceed with his or her research. What good is a twelve to one ratio if each professors teaches a significantly smaller load of courses than do their colleagues at another school? The Independent published a brilliant article a few years ago showing the uncanny correlation between getting the Levenson Award for outstanding teaching and being passed over for tenure. Whatever Harvard's criteria for academic excellence, being an educator is not central...