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On March 13, Patrick T. Brennan '11, managing editor of The Salient, published a highly controversial article about ethnic studies. In the article, Brennan condemned the new Ethnic Studies secondary field as tangential to a proper undergraduate education. But in the meantime, his rhetoric-heavy article has...
In better times, said History Department Chair Lizabeth Cohen, the Department might have had the opportunity to use visiting professors to temporarily take over courses for professors on leave. In the current financial climate, it is increasingly relying on College Fellows—scholars who have just completed their graduate...
According to Cohen, the College Fellows program—which was created last year to offer research positions to graduate students struggling to find jobs—benefits undergraduate education as well, because recent graduates are familiar with Harvard’s procedures and standards.
According to annual surveys of students entering four-year colleges conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute at University of California, Los Angeles, interest in engineering began rising again in 2008 following a multi-year decline. Overall interest in science, engineering, and technology also remains significantly elevated from levels in...
Still, Maria Teresa Kumar, executive director of Voto Latino, a Hispanic civic organization based in Washington, D.C., worries because most Hispanics who do choose between white and black select white. That "risks leaving a mistaken impression that they enjoy certain socioeconomic opportunities we associate with whites in this country," says...