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...streamline the course content.“Even if you’re teaching the same region, you have to have a red thread tying everything together,” Adolphson says. “If you don’t have that, there’s a big danger that you will get lost.”Ensuring a common theme means that team-teaching professors agree to agree, even when they disagree.When a disagreement occurs over lecture material in Science B-29, Hauser and Wrangham discuss after class and send a clarification e-mail if necessary...
...taking place.Instead, Harvard faces the less expensive—but more time-consuming—task of developing a culture that focuses on diversity in the tenure process and mentorship opportunities for female faculty members.“Harvard is drastically behind a lot of other institutions. The danger, I think, is, because the problem is deep and historical, hiring five more senior people in any of the schools won’t really help,” says Lamont, who serves on the committee within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that is coordinating efforts with the Office...
...faculty vote, though discussion of it has been on the agenda at several of this spring’s faculty meetings.“The longer the process runs, the higher the expectations for some breakthrough innovation in curricular structure or approaches to learning...There’s a danger that something that stays relatively close to the existing organization will be seen as a kind of wishy-washy copout,” Gordon says. But, he adds, “That’s not a reason not to do it if it makes sense.”Jayne...
...human thought has also resulted in much of the world’s misery, and that we should not be uncritical of ideas. Summers warned that the concept of reason is threatened today by “faith-based terror.” As an example of reason in danger, Summers said that the theory of evolution is being challenged in U.S. public schools more today than ever in the last 100 years. He said that “consensus and comfort” should never be held above “the value of truth...
...senior spring. Instead, he was describing his focus at the plate at the most important juncture in the baseball season. During the regular season-ending doubleheader against the Big Green, with Harvard’s season—and Klimkiewicz’s career—in danger of ending, the powerful righty reached base in eight of ten plate appearances, going 6-for-8, getting beaned twice, driving in four runs, scoring five, and hitting a moonshot home run. All year long, Klimkiewicz was the critical cog in the middle of the Crimson order and an imposing presence...