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...Rather than teaching people how to be happy or educating happiness coaches, the school will train graduate students first in statistical methodology and then in specific research techniques. A small group of graduate students, about 10 at first, will use those tools to survey and analyze the variables that affect people's satisfaction. The first group will enroll this fall, and the program has already started receiving inquiries. Candidates from a variety of academic backgrounds will be considered for admission...
...contrast, if oil companies knew before entering or expanding operations that doing so would make them subject to divestment, they might behave differently. Only a targeted divestment policy, by defining the actions that warrant divestment, would effectively deter an oil company from entering the country or proactively affect its behavior if it did decide to enter the country...
...years, global warming was discussed in the hypothetical--a threat in the distant future. Now it is increasingly regarded as a clear, observable fact. This sudden shift means that all of us must start thinking about the many ways global warming will affect us, our loved ones, our property and our economic prospects. We must think-- and then adapt accordingly...
Will Faust keep students involved in processes and decisions that affect the heart of the undergraduate experience? The process that brought Faust to the presidency was unique in its inclusion of students; we hope this student involvement will be a precedent she continues to support. Students are the heart of any educational institution, and while it is administrators who must run day-to-day operations, often the most qualified advisers on a given issue, regardless of its import, are those whom the decision will affect most closely. Decisions at every level should include more than nominal student input?...
...chance to interact with undergraduate students as much as he did during his first tenure in Mass. Hall.“I may not be breaking bread with them in the Houses,” he said, “but I will be doing something that will affect their lives in positive ways that go to the heart of why they’re here.”—Samuel P. Jacobs contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Paras D. Bhayani can be reached at pbhayani@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer...