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...interactive relationships between students and faculty. While the current expectation from HMS is that faculty members devote 50 hours to teaching or committee activities each year, Walker said the rule has not been strictly enforced. A new computer system was recently developed to keep track of the time faculty spend on academic activities. A separate committee is also evaluating the criteria for the role of teaching in career advancement. “It’s important that we also reward teaching through non-financial means,” Slavin said. “Having a very accomplished research career...
...ironically this bountiful confidence in students’ ability to make informed decisions belies a fundamental distrust. Harvard administrators shrink from granting liberty in an area where the watchful guidance of pedagogues can perhaps be most safely withdrawn: determining in which House rising sophomores will spend the remainder of their College life...
...just the movement of your fingers. Time invested provides direct and measurable rewards. And then, your alarm goes off, shattering the fantasy world that you have lived and played for the past night. It’s time for that brutal morning lecture. You now face an important decision: Spend the next few hours in utter misery, or skip class and continue with the life you have come to love, and indeed, now need...
...that “Average American”—representative of the country’s culture, attitudes, and practices—may have passed, our compulsion for understanding where we fit within a larger whole does not. If that were the case, why would we spend hours filling our Facebook profiles and blogs with our interests, activities, and plans? Two generations ago, people were telling the same things to the Lynds, Gallup and Roper, and Kinsey.—Reviewer Brittney L. Moraski can be reached at bmoraski@fas.harvard.edu...
...months of the year. A trial period earlier this year was an unmitigated success—over 350 students wrote to the UC about how great it was to find the Times at their breakfast tables. Then came the news that the UC had voted the proposal down. Spending $1,728 to deliver five newspapers a day to each house dining hall plus an additional 20 newspapers to Annenberg was, according to the UC, not a wise way to spend the nearly $290,000 they have to give out each year. We disagree. Having The New York Times available...