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...sorry state of pedagogy at Harvard. Just as importantly, the report identified the problem as stemming from Harvard’s institutional priorities and culture and recommended 18 concrete changes to begin to fix the problem. Three of these changes—monetary incentives for top-notch teaching, the creation of a culture of peer evaluation, and making course evaluations mandatory—are particularly important. Beyond those changes, we hope that teaching is made a more important part of tenure decisions, a critical step for changing the culture of teaching at an institution where so much is driven...
...happens, I wrote for The Crimson for four years. Sometimes, I engaged serious topics like sports and race. Other times, I invited troubled basketball player Ron Artest to speak at Class Day and called for the creation of a SlamBall court at the MAC. Towards the end, I blogged...
...competition to a team long accustomed to a place near the bottom of the Ivy League. The last Heptagonals Championship of any kind won by the Crimson was at the outdoor meet in 1985, a statistic that Saretsky hopes to change. The first step toward that goal was the creation of a traveling squad within the team, designed to increase competition both on the team itself and ensure that all Harvard athletes taken to meets had a chance to be productive. “From my perspective, it seemed like the team members took pretty well to the travel standards...
...responding to e-mailed questions from The Crimson, would not elaborate on the details of his announcement and declined to say whether he will propose a specific calendar or simply give his approval to the creation of a University-wide calendar...
...Calendar reform has been a perennial issue at Harvard. In September 2003, then-University President Lawrence H. Summers, Provost Steven E. Hyman, and the University’s deans publicly supported a universal calendar for Harvard’s schools and announced the creation of Verba’s cross-school committee to “consider and propose calendar guidelines applicable to Harvard as a whole...