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...play that “transgresses race, becoming a story to which everyone can relate.” Ultimately, Imafidon hopes this performance will have an impact on the Harvard community’s collective conscience. For her, social awareness should not just take place in the classroom.“It’s very easy for us to intellectualize and moralize and be distant about how we analyze issues. [Today], we’re still dealing with [issues like] single motherhood and homelessness and you can’t walk down a street around Harvard...
...also encourage the use of affirmative action programs beyond the classroom, as they have clear value in the workplace. Most importantly, we still believe that there are clear biases in many areas of employee hiring, even if the biases are unintentional. There is research to suggest that black job applicants often receive worse job offers than white applicants, despite being equal in every possible regard—education, skill set, and experience. And empirical evidence shows that the notorious “glass ceiling” continues to hamper women’s opportunities for advancement in the corporate world...
Harvard students are celebrated for their mathematical aptitude, their dexterity with the English language, and their political savvy. While most of us have dominated in the classroom, this does not necessarily translate to the bedroom. So it wasn’t surprising that students sat up and took note when posters advertising an event entitled “How to be a Great Lover” began showing up all over campus. Most intriguing of all? It was to be sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship...
...evaluations—students must be the primary judges of a professor’s teaching abilities. One does not need a doctorate to determine whether a professor is well-organized, whether she can present a coherent, original lecture, or whether, in the end, she inspires or bores a classroom of students...
...professors’ rejection of CUE surveys left more than 230 TFs without the formal student evaluations that would help these aspiring academics develop their teaching careers. If Harvard is to expect, as we firmly believe it should, its tenure-track faculty to be as proficient in the classroom as they are in the library or the laboratory, it must cultivate the teaching skills of academia’s future teachers. But instilling this sort of cultural shift in what Harvard values in its faculty—that they must demonstrate competence in the classroom in order to be hired?...