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...favorite Internet revolution, Facebook.com, made it easier to get politically involved this year. Its “Election 2006?? feature, allowed you to list the candidates and issues you cared about, and then informed all your cyber-friends of them. At first glance, all this sounds great—what could be better than using a new technology to address an old need...
What’s more, the election season has now ended—and with it Facebook pulled its “Election 2006?? section. But while Facebook proudly boasted each time a subscriber decided to care about an issue or join a group, the entire feature was quickly removed without fanfare. While I’m glad that, as a Facebook user, I will not have to read thousands of updates announcing that “John no longer cares about Gay Marriage” or “Sally no longer cares about AIDS...
...time to take learning out of a vacuum, an idea that’s almost 100 years in the (re-)making.LEARNING BY DOINGWhile the new proposal explicitly references the influence of interim University President Derek C. Bok’s “Our Underachieving Colleges” and 2006??s “Excellence Without A Soul: How A Great University Forgot Education”—an expose by former dean of the College and Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis ’68—the report also echoes...
...level of satisfaction among undergraduates with their social experiences increased from 3.6 in 2005 to 3.7 in 2006??a figure still below the “satisfied” level...
...University. The rate at which alumni give back to their school, known as the “participation rate,” is sometimes viewed as a barometer of alumni confidence in an institution. Harvard’s rate fell slightly to 39 percent during fiscal year 2006??only a single percentage point lower than the previous year’s rate, but the College’s lowest since 1989. Fundraising from Harvard alumni still showed signs of strength last year, including a $41 million reunion donation from the Class of 1981. More than three-quarters...