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...Expository Writing program. Expos asked her instead to teach a much broader course on storytelling more generally. Rather than upsetting her plans, this request led Chadbourne to approach the medium differently, and opened up scholarly and creative worlds to her. She considers her ever-changing relationship to academia and the arts, saying, “I used to wonder, am I a scholar or an artist? Now, I don’t worry so much.” Chadbourne’s art is a combination of narrative, music, and poetry; she weaves together these different media in unique ways...
...accept anything on mere faith. “If I saw Jesus walk on water, I would believe it—but unless I do, why would I believe it?” exclaimed a friend of mine.Such a skeptical attitude is understandable, as it is nurtured in academia. After all, students of science conduct experiments and rely on the results in order to prove their findings; mathematicians use deductive logic to prove their theorems; humanities majors strive to include supporting evidence in their essays . Since our minds are trained from a young age to require evidence, proof, and arguments...
...University professor in the fall of 2007. He said yesterday he expects that his wife of four months, Professor of English Elisa New, will take a leave from the English Department to join him on his year outside the Ivory Tower. Summers said he intends to return to Harvard academia at the end of his sabbatical, but yesterday, he hesitated to offer an iron-clad commitment. “Never rule anything out,” he said. ON THE SIDELINES Formerly a lightning rod for controversy, Summers now finds himself on the outside of another tempest: some critics have...
...Sharon E. D. Alexander, a military veteran and policy director for the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, spoke of breaking down the walls between academia and the military, noting that no one else attending the panel had served in the military...
...course head for the Owner/President Management Program, according to Williams. “Phil and the group of down-to-earth ‘doers’ developed an almost immediate rapport and they appreciated him,” said Williams. “He could deliver messages from academia at Harvard in a way that would ring true with them as ground-level executives.” An authority on manufacturing and planning, Thurston actively engaged his students and made use of the interactive format of the HBS case method, Williams said. “The combination of personal...