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...insists it was murder. She and other family members say that Zhu had adapted well to prison life. He enjoyed working in the prison library and teaching English to inmates, and he had taken up oil painting. A portly, balding book lover who once studied economics in Italy, he had just devoured The Count of Monte Cristo and identified with the main character, who wreaks slow revenge on those who have falsely accused him. In his last week, says Fan, Zhu promised to take her on an around-the-world trip and to teach history to his nephew; he also...
...math major who attended a Christian high school in Temecula, Calif. "He said that was a dangerous way of looking at things. What's dangerous about asking a question?" Not a thing, most professors would say, and most at A.P.U. do. While the school's theology professors teach the creation story, its scientists also teach evolution "as a theory," says Milhon. "It's important that students speak the language of evolution. I don't say what they should believe." Nonetheless, Taylor's experience reflects the school's roots as the first Bible college on the West Coast, founded...
...calendar. Students and faculty benefit from this academic change of pace. I don’t think lengthening the two regular semesters would produce an equal benefit. Those faculty members who vote to retain winter term will do so for different reasons. Some, including those who teach introductory foreign language courses, love the teaching opportunity, as I do. In addition, faculty members in departments that schedule comprehensive examinations for their seniors during January will also support winter term. As well, faculty members who do not have to teach during winter term, and members of the physical education department...
...students and teachers to come together in concentrated common study. I suspect this is a good thing at any liberal arts college. So the best question the committees reevaluating Harvard’s curriculum and its calendar should ask is: How might Harvard encourage its senior faculty to teach undergraduates, so that they come together in small classes for discussion, no matter what time of year...
Burgard noted the difficulty in acquiring faculty to teach courses abroad during the academic year...