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E-Prince“Professor Bernhard was the reason I majored in chemistry.”
When Jackie Latina ’08 came to Princeton, her struggle in departmental courses freshman year made her think twice about majoring in chemistry. Stefan Bernhard, who taught Latina in CHM 407: Inorganic ...
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fix the typos, but otherwise really good article
first legitimately good article in several months!
wow an actual well-researched investigative piece. well done. westmoreland should be editor.
Whether he did or not, MacMillan remains a D-bag. Good luck chem department as everybody leaves. Have fun in the empty new building. 50 MacMillan grad students (and cryoprobes) does not a department make... Bernhard is going to end up somewhere where the university, not just his department, gives him the respect he deserves.
For once, an article that does the journalistic profession some good has appeared in the Prince. Kudos.
This is the first time in my four-year memory of the Daily Prince that a good, even possibly great, story has come out. It's investigative and it's a topic of interest to the entire community. Kudos to Westmoreland.
Great article, Mr. Westmoreland.
A well-written piece proving what I've thought for awhile - the University does not care in the least bit about the learning experiences of its undergrad students. Princeton is not a teaching institution. In my four years here, I have only had one good teacher who was a tenured professor. If you want to learn here as an undergrad, you have to be good at teaching yourself. It's a sad state of affairs, and something that would have swayed my initial college decision had I known the truth and not the white-washed college tour version of it. A suggestion to those upset about tenure decisions: petition. It has half-worked in the past (professors not necessarily receiving tenure, but being allowed to stay on longer than they're supposed to be able to without tenure) and it doesn't hurt to try.
I think it probably depends on department. I'm an '08 as well, and I've had generally superb teaching in my humanities department. On another note, the article was terrific. I would be interested to see the tenure rates at HYP compared. My sense--could be wrong--is that Princeton does a slightly better job than its top peers at tenuring junior faculty, although it's clear from this article that there are plenty of problems in Princeton's process.
wow. excellent article.