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...first, seem surprising that dishonesty is the most shattering. Next to racist comments, student violence, and faculty paychecks, Wheeler’s fraudulent background has gained more press than any recent Harvard story of late, and it illustrates that academia, more so than any other field, is built on trust. More importantly, from this trust comes our ability to forge and present our own identities...
...That was a big game for us,” Lin said. “Just the way we won it, it built a lot of team chemistry and a lot of confidence in our team, and I think that helped us in terms of pulling out close games...It was just a big thing for our team that early...
Next year, SEAS will be facing the same 12 percent reduction in its endowment payout as other Harvard schools, an income loss that the school will offset by drawing from the financial reserves it built up in the years before the financial crisis...
...past year, celebrities like Oprah G. Winfrey and Madonna have come under fire for the elaborate girls’ secondary schools they have built in South Africa and Malawi respectively; grassroots activists assert that, in building such western-style schools, both women fall short of maximizing their potential for change. Unsurprisingly, celebrities and corporations capable of undertaking large-scale projects such as these “leadership academies” turn up their noses at the more localized efforts of these same grass-roots critics. Such antagonism is at once unnecessary and counter-productive. Each type of school affects...
...Schools built by small, grass-roots NGOs operate on the inverse theory of change, striving to revolutionize the local status quo rather than affect national or global change. Usually rural instead of urban and almost always consistent with government standards, schools built by organizations like Achieve-in-Africa, BuildAfrica, Ripple Africa, and Schools-for-Africa are intensely local, both in terms of curriculum and culture. Such schools do not guarantee a college education; they simply equip girls to maximize their impact in their hometowns by holding jobs outside the home and ensuring the education of the next generation of girls...