But he is only half-joking. Princeton's program is structured financially so that the department of the professor who is offering the seminar does not have to entirely foot the bill for the seminar.
Roughly half of Princeton's seminars are funced by endowments and departments are reimbursed for the professor's teaching time out of those funds, Howard "Hank" N. Dobin, co-director of the freshman seminar program and associate dean of the college notes.
The seminars that are not endowed are funded via donations from departments in faculty teaching time, Dobin says.
Some of the endowment funds can also be used to help develop a course over the summer, or subsidize activities like dinners and field trips.
"There'e nothing memorable about a meal at my house. But for [freshman]there is," Rosen says.
And the extra funds let professors like George L. McLendon, chair of the chemistry department add special components to their seminars.
McLendon had a senior lecturer run a lab for students in his seminar, "The Galvanization of Biology: Metal Ions and Life," and the freshman seminar program paid for the lecturer's time.
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