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...Reasoning or The United States in the World—but not both. Members of the Gen Ed committee and the Economics department said the decision marks a reasonable compromise. “We are very happy with the outcome,” said Jeffrey A. Miron, the economic department??s director of undergraduate studies. Ec10 professor N. Gregory Mankiw, who found out the news during his summer at the beach, expressed similar pleasure. “I’m delighted about how it’s all worked out,” he said...
...incident earlier this month has raised concerns about Harvard University Police Department??s treatment of racial minorities on campus, leading University President Drew G. Faust to announce the creation of a six-member committee to review HUPD’s practices.“The review will include consideration of HUPD’s diversity training, community outreach, and recruitment efforts, as well as the ways in which Harvard’s past experience as well as best practices elsewhere can help inform our future practice,” Faust wrote in an e-mail to faculty...
...syllabi for the mandatory introductory courses for concentrators in history and social studies (the “interdisciplinary concentration in the social sciences at Harvard College”) are confined to Western authors and theorists. While no longer mandated (the history department??s current requirements are one course in pre-modern history, one course in Western history, one course in non-Western history, and six additional half-courses in the department or related fields), the traditional survey courses that are so fundamental to a background in historical study have a Western bias. The measly two weeks spent...
...professionalism instead of the liberal arts ideal of intellectual inquiry. Never mind that Harvard started out largely as a pre-professional school (the profession then was being a Protestant minister). Some students may choose economics because they believe it is good preparation for a business career, but the department??s courses emphasize economics as an intellectual pursuit. This is an annoyance for some students, but in our view the right approach for a liberal arts university...
...CORI reform shows, protecting the citizens of Massachusetts is a worthy goal, but one whose initial steps can be misguided. The Safe Homes initiative—started this year by the Boston Police Department??involved police teams working with community committees to search for and remove any firearms owned by minors at the permission of the adults of the household. While the intentions of this initiative were salutary, it is essential that awareness of the optional nature of the searches is widespread, and that the officers’ primary intention upon entering the house is to remove firearms...