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Our Tanzanian teaching partners, mostly university students, all have songs from 50 Cent and Ne-Yo on their cell phones. They count down the days until films like Angels and Demons are released at the theater in Arusha. One of the guys carries a not-so-secret torch for Hannah...
"It seems kind of short-sighted, [with the Bok Center] being one of the few things Harvard does to support educating teachers," said Matthew D. Schwartz, an assistant professor of physics. "This is only going to exemplify the lack of devotion to teaching resources."
The Center, which dispenses teaching advice to faculty and teaching fellows throughout the school year, has already in recent months seen its staff shrink by six employees, or nearly 50 percent of its personnel, according to the Center's director, James D. Wilkinson '65. And while some of those positions...
Among the Bok Center's best-known programs are its teaching conferences for junior faculty members and TFs held in August and September. Michael Frazer, an assistant professor who arrived in the government department in 2007, called the programs "incredibly helpful" and said they allowed participants to become familiar with...
But at an institution that is sometimes criticized for emphasizing research over pedagogy, the sizable cuts faced by the Bok Center may be seen as an indication that undergraduate teaching is undervalued.