Higher Education
Teaching Without Tenure: The Lecturer's Role in a Harvard Education
The document states that 61 percent of enrollments across FAS were taught by ladder faculty in 2008. Non-ladder faculty—which the report defines as lecturers, preceptors, and professors of the practice—taught 29 percent of enrollments, while the remaining 10 percent were taught by visiting faculty, professors emeriti, and professors from other Harvard schools.
Global Access to Higher Education on the Rise
The director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College charted trends in university systems across the globe during a talk Tuesday at Harvard.
Panelists Advocate for Teaching of 9/11
A panel of education experts and terrorism scholars cautioned Wednesday against teaching the events of Sept. 11, 2001 simply as an attack against America, suggesting that teaching the history of 9/11 offers a powerful opportunity to encourage empathy in students.
New Course, Taught Through Videos, Crosses Disciplines
The interdisciplinary seminar, which will be taught at Harvard and Yale concurrently, features top academics from across the country teaching what course organizers call some of the world's most important ideas.
Tenure Denial Sparks Student Protest
Sixty Harvard Graduate School of Education students gathered outside of a faculty meeting for a second time last Monday to protest an April 12th decision to deny tenure to Ed School professor Mark R. Warren, who specializes in community organizing and school reform.
New Architecture Concentration Planned
Harvard’s Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Graduate School of Design are developing a new undergraduate concentration in architectural studies planned to be offered for the first time in the fall of 2012.
Panel Discusses Girls’ Education in the Middle East
Scholars and students gathered to discuss the problems associated with women’s education and economic involvement in the Middle East at a panel discussion last night, noting that female education rates in Iraq are the lowest they have been in a decade.
Stanford Professor Alan M. Garber ’76 Selected as Next Provost
Alan M. Garber ’76, a Stanford professor of medicine and economics, has been selected as the next University Provost, replacing Steven E. Hyman.
Teaching Disrespect
Graduate students are taught that teaching is not important. The reason graduate students aren’t required to teach more is that faculty want them in the lab or the library doing research. Research is what earns you a job, tenure, and worldwide renown; teaching is a distraction.
Panel Discusses Education Gap
A group of panelists agreed that a unified vision and a tireless approach would be needed to close the nationwide “achievement gap.”
Careers in Teaching Expo
Becky Van der Bogert and Donna Tobey from Palm Beach Day Academy discuss prospective job opportunities with Katrina Peady at the Harvard PreK-12 expo in the Gutman Conference Center.
