December 16, 2005

Teaching Courses Outside One's Field

To the Editor:

As an academic administrator, I have worked with faculty colleagues on the struggle to have well-rounded professors ("Where a Geneticist Can Teach Gilgamesh," The Chronicle, November 4). The concept of having a broad core with students and faculty members alike engaged in, and living the life of, the liberal arts is laudable. But in practice it is difficult to convince folks that it can make a difference when we place so many pressures on faculty members to develop

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