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...have them at all—served as depressing indicators of Faculty apathy. Unsurprisingly, the Curricular Review largely fell flat. Instead of crafting a meaningful statement on what it means to be educated in today’s world, professors only seemed to care that their parochial corner of academia be included, leaving Harvard with an uninspired retread of the Core Curriculum. It will be up to Smith and Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris, who will lead the General Education committee which is to implement the Review’s findings, to breathe life and coherence into...
...questions facing universities today are extraordinarily challenging. They include the correct balance among the sciences, humanities, and social sciences; the relationship between academia and the world at large; the role of the new media and its implications for traditional academic studies; and the composition of a satisfactory liberal arts education. Harvard, in particular, faces additional challenges in the months and years ahead, such as realizing Allston’s potential for scientific and other goals, determining the proper relationship with junior faculty, balancing the roles of individuals, centers, and departments, negotiating the inclusion of interdisciplinary studies and the various schools...
...Senior Associate Provost Isaac T. Kohlberg, who arrived here in 2005. Before that, Kohlberg led tech transfer efforts at Tel Aviv University and at New York University School of Medicine. In that last post, he commanded a salary of nearly $1.3 million, making him the highest-paid administrator in academia, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education...
With the increase in female ranks in academia Budson says there is less pressure on individual women to be representatives of their...
...because the direction that African-American studies has taken in the last 15 years or so has been a direction that is broader than just the definition of African-American as black people in the United States,” Higginbotham says, citing this larger shift in academia as well as, for the first time, a receptive University administration as the reasons for the change in the department’s name and structure...