lbo-talk-digest V1 #4436

[joanna bujes]

At 02:33 PM 06/06/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>So supposing that you were a very senior academic administrator
>interested in getting the senior faculty of an Ivy League university
>re-engaged in teaching. How would you go about doing it?

1. make it a requirement.

2. make it sexy: give a lot of airplay, kudos, and social status to those 
who do a good job teaching.

3. give bonuses for senior faculty teaching freshmen courses

...and before they become "senior faculty"

4. don't hire assholes...to begin with. At UC Berkeley there were a couple 
of senior professors who always made it a point to teach freshmen: Alain 
Renoir and Julian Boyd immediately come to mind.

5. make it an important part of tenure review

Joanna B.