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This idea has caught on: A recent tally found over 150 university animal studies courses in North America, covering everything from theories of animal rights to animals as symbols in ancient civilizations.
Now it’s time for Harvard to follow suit. Benson notes that Harvard’s faculty and students have already shown significant interest in animal studies but often lack the structure to interact. A yearlong speaker series could change that, as could the offering of more animal...
The administration has been remarkably tight-lipped about any structured plans for next year’s inaugural “January Experience,” the chunk of post-break January in which Harvard students are encouraged to do something productive rather than take an extended vacation. While the...
On Wednesday, universities and colleges across Indiana, Minnesota, and Utah announced a pilot project that would set common learning standards across institutions in those states. The project, supported by the Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation for Education, will specify a consensus-based set of skills, rather than a subjective number of...
Especially at the university level, where each institution has its own distinct character, regulating instruction across institutional lines only discourages intellectual diversity. Moreover, each professor who develops a course can add a different ingredient to that particular field—an aspect of higher education that makes it especially unique...