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...1980s, Harvard also partnered with Hewlett-Packard and other companies to integrate state-of-the-art technologies into the classroom...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plugged In: Computers In Class | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...means they will never move out. The exodus of undergraduates from the humanities to occupational majors—coupled with the devaluation of literature and art in our society—has driven certain humanist disciplines to the brink of extinction. From the early 1970s to the mid 1980s, the number of English majors in the United States dwindled from 64,000 to 34,000. Despite the fact that more students across the country are attending college than ever before, less than four percent of them in 2004 chose to major in English, a number that has declined each subsequent...

Author: By Matthews B. Kaiser | Title: Reading Like Your Life Depends On It | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...research assistant translating  Japanese documents for History Professor Andrew D. Gordon ’74 during the spring of her junior year. Gordon also served on the committee for Owada’s initial proposal for her economics senior thesis on Japanese-American trade relations in the 1980s, for which economist Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76 served as her advisor...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Japanese Princess Bridges Cultures | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...Lowell House blockade marked the peak of the anti-apartheid protests in the mid-1980s, resulting in disciplinary action for more than a dozen students...

Author: By ZOE A. Y. WEINBERG, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Protest Apartheid | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Suleiman said that part of the energy of her committee’s work was that Women’s Studies in the 1980s was because it was a new and vibrant intellectual field...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students and Faculty Fight for Women’s Studies | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

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