Word: citizenship
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...rooted source: a culture of inclusion and openness as could be fostered only by a truly international organization.FIP REFUGEERebecca R. Gong ’08, Woodbridge’s incoming president, is a product of that culture. Born in America, and educated in China, Gong’s American citizenship prevented her from participating in Harvard’s Freshman International Program (FIP). Tackling the issues that immediately face students from a foreign country, FIP helps internationals obtain social security numbers, bank accounts, and cell phones, and also introduces them to the Cambridge and Boston area through a variety...
...report so proudly explains, “general education prepares students to be citizens of a democracy within a global society.” Indeed, such citizenship, as abstract and nebulous as laid out by the report, can claim no “utility” or “relevance” commensurate to those positions at investment banks and consulting firms filled every year by numerous Harvard graduates...
...Although the Task Force’s initial report underwent several structural permutations—such as the excision of a “Reason and Faith” requirement—its ostensible raison d’être of preparing undergraduates for global citizenship remained, in spirit at least, largely intact. Yet Harvard’s attempts to generally educate its students, despite the apparently hollow platitudes about the importance of understanding traditions and historically-developed ideas, will not include any mandatory study of the past...
...catastrophes, testify to the depth and richness of the human experience as much as the poetic fictions of Sophocles and Shakespeare. It is a richness that cannot be conveyed by the simplistic and narrow ideologies which are cloaked by the innocuous-sounding imperative of “global citizenship...
...noncitizens to vote, the benefits of doing so are murky. Immigrant-rights advocates insist that giving newcomers a voice in local government integrates them quickly into their communities--and encourages them to become citizens. Opponents say that's backward: voting means little to an immigrant who hasn't earned citizenship. It's a divisive debate, and in a nation grown chilly toward immigrants, supporters of noncitizen voting have a tough case to make...