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...cumulative effect was one of meaningless proposals, stretched to the point where they lacked any ideological or intellectual bite. The prime example is the November 2005 report, which resembled, in its inclusion of every course across all departments, a terrible piece of pork barrel legislation rather than a meaningful attempt at casting undergraduate education. Thanks to the enormous political clout professors had won from Summers’ downfall, neither the president nor other administrators had the power to reign in these partisan efforts...
...instead of seeking a return to reason and facts, thereby elevating currently debased discussions, too many people respond simply by dragging the debate down further. Worse than insulting their opponents, these protestors react by not even allowing the other side to speak. They simply attempt to shout over any opponent. The most recent example of such behavior was the harassment of FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III at an Institute of Politics Forum in April. Four students began shouting at Mueller about a minute into his talk and continued yelling until they were arrested. This protest did nothing to generate...
...Unlike some universities, which open full-time graduate schools in other countries, Harvard’s centers abroad make no attempt to replicate the Cambridge experience—neither its facilities, faculty, nor students. Instead of offering Harvard courses, the University’s international outposts focus on faculty research, the facilitation of undergraduate study abroad, and post-graduate studies...
...personally very comfortable in envisaging that there would be offices of different types,” says Vice Provost for International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez. “There would be no attempt of having a simple cookie cutter of saying they have to be all alike...
...Auguste creates micro-environments in her lab that simulate bodily conditions in an attempt to better grasp the way that diseases such as cancer and diabetes affect human cells and tissue. Her work is focused on two specific areas—drug delivery and stem cell differentiation...