Category: Announcements

Grading at the FAS

Test score sheet with answers, grade A+ and pencil.

Since the release of the Report on Grading in Fall 2023, a Grading Implementation Committee has worked with groups across the FAS to begin to reduce external pressures on grading and support transparency in giving feedback to students: Learn more on the Grading Report webpage…Continue Reading Grading at the FAS

OUE bestows new teaching award on 11 faculty members

2024 Anya Bernstein Bassett Awards winners pose with Dean Hoekstra and Dean Claybaugh.

The Office of Undergraduate Education (OUE), the FAS Office for Faculty Affairs, and the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning inaugurated the Anya Bernstein Bassett Award for Excellence in Teaching, bestowing the new teaching award on non-ladder faculty last week at the Barker Center. The award is named in honor of Anya Bernstein Bassett, longtime director of undergraduate studies in Social Studies,…Continue Reading OUE bestows new teaching award on 11 faculty members

OUE and Bok Center launch Teaching at FAS website

Everything having to do with teaching can now be found in a single place: teaching.fas.harvard.edu. There, you’ll find guidance from the Bok Center about course and assignment design, information about newly-implemented FAS policies, and reminders of processes whose details we may forget from one year to the next (how to put books on reserve, how to order AV equipment, how…Continue Reading OUE and Bok Center launch Teaching at FAS website