<p>I think I read somewhere that he teaches a class (or he did last year?). How are the students chosen for this?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I'm not sure how the students were chosen (though I assume it was same as all the other classes: first come, first serve on registration day), but yes, President Ayers taught one history class to a small (10?) group of freshmen, held once a week at his house. From what I hear, it was amazing, and having met President Ayers, that is not hard to believe - I would adore to take a class from him!</p>
<p>Alethiometer is right, President Ayers did teach a class in civil war history, I believe, which is his area of expertise. He teaches in a remodeled room in the basement of the President's house. I've heard that it was INCREDIBLE! He's a really great guy, and his inauguration is tomorrow!</p>
<p>do you think he will do thi in the fall?</p>
<p>Yes, I feel sure he will. But the course title won't have been published with his name beside it--it will just say that it is taught by "staff", so students will need to take a bit if a risk guessing which course in History taught by "staff" might be his. Students generally have found him to be quite accessible, so if your student doesn't get into this class, that won't have been the only opportunity to get to know him a bit. </p>
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<p>Just wanted to put up a quick message. Tonight Dr. Ayers DJed a party celebrating his official inauguration and played air guitar. I have also heard through the grapevine that UR is going to be announcing something big.....</p>
<p>any clues about the big announcement??</p>
<p>Sorry, I don't want to steal anyone's thunder.</p>
<p>aw come on now- Just a litle hint Spider05?
I am hoping you are going to say that they will fully fund students whose families make under $60 K or something</p>
<p>or maybe it is a huge diversity based scholarship program</p>
<p>That is my fantasy too. Accepted but still need an outrages sum of loans so as of now, UR not even a possibility.</p>
<p>opps, sorry, I meant "outrageous"...</p>
<p>Well......I don't want to steal thunder, so I'll post a link to a document where you can find what I was referring to. The document is 14 pages long and covers a lot of different topics. Within the document, they do discuss increasing the $40,000 ceiling and also discuss opening that program up to the other 49 states as well. Unfortunately, it doesn't help anyone right now.</p>
<p>if a student was already enrolled, say for next fall and they implemented the $40,000 thing, would the then current students soph, junior, srs get that benefit as well, do you think???</p>
<p>I don't speak for anyone at UR, I'm simply an alumnus that wanted to come on here and help people looking for info on UR. That said, in my opinion, if they didn't grant any changes in that aid to the current students, I think they could have a near riot on their hands and would be foolish not to.</p>
<p>I really appreciate your wisdom and realtively recent experience at UR Spider05- You've helped us a lot in the few months we've been on here-</p>
<p>If you are excited about the 'news' it must be great news!</p>
<p>My son, who transferred out of UR at the end of the fall 2007 semester, was one of the 12 students in President Ayer’s class, named “Southern Past.” The topics were much broader than the Civil War. He enjoyed the class. It was Monday evenings in the President’s home, in the very nice basement. Dr. Ayers provided dinner each week. S felt that Dr. Ayers was a very good teacher and he learned a lot. The class was a huge amount of work, they were assigned ten books to read during the course. These were often very long, tedious books. There was a one page paper due most weeks. No written tests. I recall during parents weekend, S only spent a few hours with us as he needed to spend most of the weekend reading. I believe my son would recommend the course, it was a highlight during his short UR stay, but be prepared to spend about 20 hours per week on it some weeks.</p>