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...will be sensitive to student needs and concerns during her tenure. In 1993, while a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, she received the graduating students’ award for teaching excellence. Over the past four years as a professor at HLS, she has continued her stellar classroom performance...
Luckily, no one needs a doctorate to separate honest skepticism from institutionalized dogma. Skip Evans, of the National Center for Science Education, worried that classroom discussions of evidence against evolution might “cast seeds of doubt in students’ minds...
...philosophic level, this merger represents a major shift in the way we think about education at Harvard. The most incredible aspect of Harvard’s undergraduate life is that much of the real learning occurs outside of the traditional classroom. Involvement in cultural groups, athletics, public service, political groups, and a plethora of other endeavors helps students develop the social skills, time management strategies, organization and dedication that their future aspirations will demand. Moreover, many of these activities, such as publications and the IOP, develop explicitly intellectual skills that are non-academic only in name. But, Summers vowed...
Undoubtedly, various aspects of Harvard’s classroom instruction leave room for improvement. But if we want to improve education, let’s talk about advising, teaching, and the Core, all of which the curricular review will examine over the next two years. Subordinating non-curricular life to the classroom experience by putting all of the responsibilities of the Dean of the College under an individual who is primarily charged with leading the curricular review will only hinder Harvard’s ability to educate the whole person. It is becoming abundantly clear that our administration is more...
...diversity as one of the cornerstones of a comprehensive education. Harvard’s amicus brief maintains the importance of race as a factor in admissions, arguing “[it is a] fact that a racially diverse class improves the educational process by exposing students, both in the classroom and through their informal interactions, to a broad range of experiences and viewpoints...