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...with the health of its democracy, and America’s colleges and universities may be at least partially to blame. The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), a conservative education think tank, suggested as much in its recently released report, entitled “The Coming Crisis in Citizenship: Higher Education??s Failure to Teach America’s History and Institutions.” Although the report uses attention-grabbing language to highlight what it has deemed a failure of higher education, the ISI fails to convincingly support its central recommendation: that improved (and required) college civics courses...
...will not turn my room into a den of immorality.” But now, thanks to the generous purchase of the cushy one-body-only-please mattresses—subsidized with funding from Currier’s summer tenant, the Graduate School of Education??Currier students have an opportunity to finally break free from the suffocating lasciviousness that previously defined them. With narrower mattresses, Currier can stand as an equal with such greats as Dunster, Winthrop, and Lowell, whose residents maintain celibacy by sleeping in wobbly bunk beds wedged into walk-through triples. If the river houses...
...member faculty committee charged with revamping the College’s plan for general education??assembled by former Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby in May—has been “working hard all summer,” Bok said. One of the committee’s co-chairs, Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, said last Friday that the committee plans to release its preliminary proposals before the end of September...
...member faculty committee released a preliminary report in July, recommending in part that Harvard “implement hands-on learning as a cornerstone in undergraduate science and engineering education?? and eliminate barriers to interdisciplinary research across the University. The UPCSE plans to present a final report to Harvard’s governing boards in December...
...member faculty committee released a preliminary report in July, recommending in part that Harvard “implement hands-on learning as a cornerstone in undergraduate science and engineering education?? and eliminate barriers to interdisciplinary research across the University. The UPCSE plans to present a final report to Harvard’s governing boards in December...