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...Harvard is a frequent topic of conversation, such discussions only reinforcing the self-consciousness surrounding the University’s image. As students apply to internships or clubs, there is almost a subconscious importance assigned to amassing a checklist of credentials—one that often prioritizes the curriculum vitae over the vita itself...
...cannot be overstated. Now, without proof that cities can revolutionize their worst schools, there is always a fine excuse. Superintendents, parents and teachers in urban school districts lament systemic problems they cannot control: poverty, hunger, violence and negligent parents. They bicker over small improvements such as class size and curriculum, like diplomats touring a refugee camp and talking about the need for nicer curtains. To the extent they intervene at all, politicians respond by either throwing more money at the problem (if they're on the left) or making it easier for some parents to send their kids to private...
...plan would trim the number of basic requirements for concentrators from six to four, which members of the department said would allow students more leeway to design their own curriculum. Undergraduate advising would also be beefed up under the plan...
...Golan said. Four of the Ph.D programs are based in the Medical School Quadrangle in the Longwood Medical Area, and the remaining three—biophysics, chemical biology, and systems biology—are University-wide initiatives. Golan said that he hopes to identify and revamp components of the curriculum that are currently “relatively underdeveloped.” Although Golan said he does not know what these areas are at this point, he added that department chairs have been very receptive to proposed efforts. Golan will also oversee the master’s degree programs...
...response to the student concerns, the school’s curriculum committee revised the school’s student handbook last month to include a section of new policies mandating that faculty and students disclose all financial ties to pharmaceutical companies when discussing drugs developed by those companies...