We wanted [co-teaching] to have a practical effect to counter class size.

Whether he was pushing a broom or teaching a class, he gave 100 percent.

Compromises have been made -- this is not being taught in class. We don't advocate teaching intelligent design at this point.

During class, our teaching is often aimed at white students or the white norm. Faculty members should be encouraged to create a curriculum where students of color and white students are represented equally.

Much of the teaching strategies are now geared to make sure we write across the curriculum, in every class.

How remote we were too from the crazy musicians who arrived on a blustery fall day with the idea that, since this was a financial center, there would be a rain of coins from the tall buildings in response to their trumpet, guitar, and bass fiddle. The wind swirled their jazz among the canyons. I saw that no one was paying them the slightest attention. Feeling guilty, I threw them a quarter, but they didn't see it. They danced and made jazz in the cold, while upstairs we went on with our work, and they didn't exist, and it was nobody's fault.