Vol.25, No. 01	Sept. 3, 1999

Professor Tayler Named to Society of Senior Scholars

The election of Professor Edward W. Tayler as a member of the Society of Senior Scholars has been announced by Wm. Theodore de Bary, director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities. The Society of Senior Scholars consists of distinguished professors of the humanities who, after retirement, continue to teach Literature Humanities, Contemporary Civilization, Art and Music Humanities, or their counterparts in Asian Studies. Tayler will be teaching Literature Humanities, as he has done for many year.

Edward "Ted" Tayler began teaching at Columbia in 1960. He has been the recipient of the Great Teacher Award, the Mark Van Doren Award and the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching.

In the early 1980's he began the study and design of a new composition course to serve as the writing component of the Core Curriculum in Columbia College. Entitled Logic and Rhetoric, the new course was approved by the College Committee on Instruction and entered the Core officially in academic year 1986-1987. During the ensuing decade as chair of the Committee on Composition he both taught and guided the course, with special attention to training beginning teachers of composition. He received the Distinguished Service to the Core Curriculum Award in 1998.