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...currently among the lowest-paid teachers at Harvard. Although Expos may not be a fun course, it is a crucial part of how freshman year equalizes students’ future opportunities, simply by helping all students develop a similar capacity to write argumentative essays.The real headaches begin with the Core Curriculum. In order to start fulfilling Core requirements, many students are encouraged to take the classes that least reflect their interests—that way they will be sure that whatever concentration they may pick, the classes will count for Core credit. These classes, however, are no help in understanding...
...Core survives Harvard’s three-year-old curricular review, the story of the effort to redefine undergraduate education here might one day be reading material for the Literature and Arts-A course, ”Tragic Drama and Human Conflict...
...Ryan said that it can be difficult for faculty members to keep pace with the rapidly advancing field of digital resources, and suggested that the Core office and department heads remind faculty members to check Harvard’s resources before copyright fees are paid...
...heavily subsidized massages and haircuts all help, but there also has to be enough creative work to go around. Google came up with a formula to help ensure this. Every employee is meant to divide his or her time in three parts: 70% devoted to Google's core businesses, search and advertising; 20% on pursuits related to the core; and 10% on far-out ideas. The San Francisco wi-fi initiative resulted from someone's 10% time; so did Google Talk, a free system for instant and voice messaging. If Google ever builds that space elevator, it will no doubt...
...back to the middle of sophomore year in order to allow students to “sample more courses and fields” and “make better-informed choices.” There is much that is right in the curricular review, including suggestions to replace the Core Curriculum with distribution requirements and to implement broad foundational courses. But as faculty of the Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) wrote last week, the current proposal to push back the concentration choice deadline is misguided, and for more reasons than the DEAS faculty delineated...