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...remarks last night that “providing the best and most innovative teaching we can provide” will become a matter of competitive advantage for American universities in an increasingly globalized world. The Levenson Award memorializes Joseph R. Levenson ’41, a University of California-Berkeley professor of Chinese history who died an untimely death in a 1969 canoeing accident. His son Leo, who graduated from the College in 1983, created the award as an undergraduate as a way for students to formally award excellent teaching at Harvard. Members of the Levenson family were present...
...focus on preferences given to wealthy white students. However, sandwiched between chapters on “A Break for Faculty Brats” and “The Legacy Establishment” lies a section that touches a nerve recently exposed by affirmative action cases at the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Michigan: “The New Jews: Asian-Americans Need Not Apply.” Much like Jews were before the 1950s, Asian-Americans are “shortchanged relative to their academic performance,” writes Golden. They are held to a higher...
...paper that decorate Allan P. Sahagun ’09’s common room don’t exactly scream “entrepreneur.” But Sahagun, with art projects and websites, loves to be creative. Sahagun and his brother Aaron, a 2006 University of California-Berkeley grad, recently earned a spot on BusinessWeek’s list of the 25 Best Entrepreneurs Under 25 for their social networking site, Alumwire.com. The brothers developed the site, which connects college students and recent graduates with job opportunities, as a response to their own need for career guidance...
...Businessweek’s “Best Entrepreneurs under 25” list yesterday for his role in the creation of a Web site designed to help college students enter the workforce. Allan P. Sahagun ’09 and his brother Aaron Sahagun, a University of California-Berkeley graduate, are the founders of alumwire.com, a “professional network with the mission to effectively consolidate important career resources,” according to the Web site. The site, which is available to invitees and anyone with a college e-mail address, offers career advice forums, posts...
...school’s proactive approach to preventing plagiarism, which requires the completion of an online tutorial on academic integrity.COPYRIGHT, COPY-WRONGSome students at other campuses have expressed concern that TurnItIn might compromise their intellectual property rights because it stores papers in its database permanently.And when the University of California-Berkeley balked at joining TurnItIn in 2002, the school’s assistant chancellor for legal affairs, Mike R. Smith, told the Chronicle of Higher Education that the issue of students’ intellectual property rights was “one of the trouble spots for us in moving ahead...