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...effort to improve this disconnect, Engell called for “greater coordination between those who teach writing and those in the concentrations...
...It’s enormously frustrating to attempt to teach people who aren’t there or who don’t think it’s important to have done the reading,” said Kathleen M. Coleman, Harvard College Professor of Latin...
While many members of our community can teach Core courses and freshman seminars and attend workshops and critique papers, there is something particularly special about the president of Harvard being so involved in the process of scholarship. This involvement sends a clear message to our students and to the world that scholarship is an exciting vocation and that the world of ideas, which all of us love, is a joyful world that must be cherished and supported. The enthusiasm of our scholar-president for teaching and research sends an unmistakable signal to the world that scholarship is precious and that...
...other professors that teach the classes Douthat cites concede that he’s at least right about the lack of breadth in Core classes...
...that logic should apply to faculty as well. I can’t count the number of times that professors have proudly proclaimed that they learn something new every time they teach a course. Since by their own admission, faculty are students of a sort too, it seems fair to me that they too should be suspended (without pay, naturally) for documented cases of plagiarism. Visible punishment of faculty plagiarizers would likely discourage undergraduate academic dishonesty...