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This February, the Task Force on General Education issued a report calling for the creation of a committee to “develop an initiative in activity-based learning.” The report suggested that an activity-based learning program could capitalize on Harvard’s flourishing extracurricular life, allowing students to forge “an intellectual link” between their academic pursuits and their endeavors outside of the classroom. Many have bristled at this promotion of activity-based learning, worried that classes would co-opt students’ extracurricular activities, transforming them into another form...
...Force’s report—a vision that does not reflect the best that activity-based learning has to offer. Well-developed activity-based courses can create potent synergies between real-world experiences and academic exploration, an alchemy that need not intrude on students’ other extracurricular commitments. Such classes stand to significantly enrich undergraduates’ learning experiences, and deserve serious consideration from Harvard’s students and faculty members...
...what will best serve students. We want a president who believes that faculty responsibilities extend beyond the realm of a research lab and into the realm of teaching and advising. We want a president who sees college not simply as an academic experience, and embraces and prioritizes its extracurricular and social values...
...months later, none of it has materialized. I sought port but got Powerade. The extracurricular fair was especially Kafkaesque. What’s this “Bah’ai,” for example? When will the Veritones get around to singing “God Save the Queen”? Why am I the only one wearing jodhpurs? Harvard was hardly the sheltered time capsule I wanted—needed?...
...institutions ought to promote. But beyond our objections to the discriminatory nature of the legislation, we are also concerned with the impact that such a law will have on sexual and health education. By denying students the opportunity to discuss “human sexuality” in any extracurricular context, the legislature is inappropriately denying students access to information about healthy, safe sexual practices. Withholding such information from students is reprehensible, unless the specific content clearly damages the student’s educational development. In this case however, the ban on sexual discourse certainly fails to meet that standard...