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The Social Engagement Initiative is a program that allows students to take the theories they have learned in the classroom and apply that knowledge in the field in a way that has a social or political impact. Professor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, the chair of African and African American Studies, explains...

Author: By Nicole Savdie, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Getting Out of the Ivory Tower | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

"He is using white privileges. He is mimicking suppressed minorities and earning money, attention and even respect," Noah Sow, a black journalist, academic and musician, said in an interview with the news website Tagesschau.de. Tahir Della, a spokesman for the Initiative of Black People in Germany (ISD), said Wallraff's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blackface Filmmaker Sparks a Race Debate in Germany | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

At my high school’s graduation ceremony, the headmaster used to introduce the valedictorian with a string of academic accomplishments, the most shocking of which was always how many A-pluses that top student had received during the past four years. A-pluses were the �...

Author: By Anita J Joseph | Title: The Case for the A-Plus | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

That Harvard has a grade inflation problem is news to no one. What is surprising, though, is that this issue has persisted despite its acknowledgment by students, professors, and the media. This may be because the obvious solution—grade deflation—is both unpalatable and difficult to...

Author: By Anita J Joseph | Title: The Case for the A-Plus | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

Grade deflation is tricky to execute because it is by nature a negative academic move. In 2004, Princeton officially implemented a grade-deflation policy intending that As would make up only 35 percent of the grades given out in each department. However, five years later in the 2008-2009 academic...

Author: By Anita J Joseph | Title: The Case for the A-Plus | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

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