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...COFHE results show that beyond sorry social lives, Harvard students are dissatisfied with the lack of student-professor relations. As we often lament, Harvard places such an emphasis on the research side of academia that many professors neglect to engage their students. Given the existing expanded Faculty of Arts and Sciences of 672 professors and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby’s intention to expand to 750 by 2010, it is critical that the administration recruits Faculty members that will be dedicated to both teaching and research. While the importance of the latter...
...Oddly, a solution to the Dems' dilemma may be on offer from liberal academia. "The hot new idea in liberal law journals is called popular constitutionalism," says Paul Gewirtz of Yale Law School. "It argues that legislatures and voters should have more control over government, and the judiciary should take a more subsidiary position." In other words, issues like abortion should be put to a vote. This is an idea unthinkable to most Democratic politicians, who believe the right to an abortion is tucked somewhere in the Constitution-and also to the more extreme religious conservatives, who believe abortion...
...stay in academia, I might end up going someplace random,” she explains with the impeccable logic of a native Manhattanite...
...When people came in to talk to him, whether it be students, faculty or staff, he didn’t just go through the motions of paying attention to them. Academia is not filled with good listeners, and he was one,” said Maher...
Eliot Professor of Education John B. Willett said after the meeting that the transition from academia to administration can be difficult...