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...importance of the undergraduate experience and continues Summers’ tradition of investing in Harvard College—from promoting social events to shoring up the College’s hit-or-miss advising system. To do so, we hope she takes the time to listen to and connect with students.Faust is also the ultimate arbiter of tenure. As President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, said, “It is in discharging this duty that the president holds the future of the University in his hands.” We hope Faust takes an active role in tenure...
...interviews, Mendelsohn’s students raved about his ability to connect scientific developments to their historical and social context, and they praised the way in which he got undergraduates to interact with course material...
...which is generally sound. Unlike the Core Curriculum’s insipid promise to teach “approaches to knowledge,” the new system promises to emphasize the content of classes, integrate different academic worldviews, and, in the report’s words, “connect in an explicit way what students learn at Harvard to life beyond Harvard, and to help them understand and appreciate the complexities of the world and their role in it.”Alas, the devil is in the details—or the lack thereof. Despite outlining...
...reason is that education is so much more than the mere transfer of information. The information has to be assimilated. Students have to connect the information to what they already know, develop mental models, learn how to apply the new knowledge, and how to adapt this knowledge to new and unfamiliar situations...
...Cambodian culture remained a significant part of their lives, even in the States. Aside from pursuing public sector work under the fellowship, which will mark her first trip to Cambodia, Leng will meet more extended family. Her extracurricular experiences at Harvard also furthered Leng’s connection to her culture. Leng, a government concentrator, threw herself into her work with Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA). Though she did not join the organization until the spring of her sophomore year, she spent a summer co-directing the Summer Urban Program and worked year-round with the Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment...