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...report by a Stanford professor released this week encourages research universities to expand and institutionalize civic engagement on campuses. The report comes on the heels of an open letter from 13 members of the Class of 1967 asking University President Drew G. Faust to form a task force to address the “widespread apathy and political indifference of the student body at Harvard College today.” The report, “New Times Demand New Scholarship II: Research Universities and Civic Engagement - Opportunities and Challenges” details areas that are crucial for encouraging civic engagement...
...elsewhere that provided support for clean tech. The Gore-approved narrative of climate change - as both a threat and an economic opportunity - penetrated the venture-capital community. Adam Grosser, a venture capitalist at the Silicon Valley firm Foundation Capital, struggled to convince his partners that they should expand beyond their traditional IT focus into clean tech. "When I first proposed it, my partners scoffed," he says. But Grosser persisted, and today clean tech accounts for 10% of Foundation's portfolio. "This is not a problem that is going away soon," he says. "This will be a trend like PCs were...
...lack of support.“The reality is that at the moment, the growth is slow in social studies and humanities,” Gordon said. “The administration isn’t in the mood at the moment, or in the recent past, to dramatically expand the faculty in this area.” And despite sporadic student activism, professors said, undergraduate advocates have failed to provide the steady pressure needed for change. “I don’t think that the student push has been that sustained or has offered a clear vision...
...problem for NATO, however, is that Musa Qala may be a very visible Taliban position, but it's only one of hundreds - by some estimates, today there is a permanent Taliban presence in more than half of Afghanistan, and NATO, struggling to expand its troop strength from reluctant European nations, is not well placed to roll it back. The breadth of the territory across which the Taliban now operates across southern Afghanistan all the way up to the capital reflects the extent to which the uncommitted civilian population is hedging its bets. With the harsh winter coming, Musa Qala...
...same time that Harvard is making plans to expand across the river, Boston College (BC) is preparing to expand across the street. BC will invest $700 million over the next 10 years in the construction of a new complex of buildings across Commonwealth Avenue from its main campus, the college announced Wednesday. As in Harvard’s Allston development plans, BC is putting interdisciplinary science at the center of its expansion. BC’s new Brighton campus will feature an integrated science complex designed to facilitate research spanning multiple fields, as well as facilities for the fine arts...