July 18, 2008
Professors on Some Campuses Find Administrators Are Open
Several times a semester, Peter N. Stearns invites a couple of dozen faculty members to join him for tea and cookies in the administration building at George Mason University. During teatimes, Mr. Stearns, the provost, takes questions and listens to professors' suggestions. Sometimes, he says, professors share "imaginative approaches" to teaching that he then passes along to others.
Mr. Stearns believes that the teas have opened up communication with professors and are the kind of
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