Posts by Marc Beja
July 27, 2009, 04:00 PM ET
For One Day, Professors Get to Teach the Course of Their Dreams
There is a university where you can teach for one hour, earn
$1,000 or more, get paid to travel to some of the most interesting
cities in the United States, engage with highly motivated students,
and never have to sit through a boring department meeting or argue
about budget cuts or grades.
One Day University is an all-day teaching event, held about 30
times a year since 2006, each involving about four professors. The
next event will be at the Tanglewood music center in Lenox, Mass.,
on August 23, and will focus on music and art, featuring a lecture
on Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 by the Harvard University professor
Thomas Kelly, followed by an evening performance of the work by the
Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Then, in addition to regular sessions this fall, the university will ramp up. In October, in New York City, it will offer students a choice of 17 courses instead of the usual three or...
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