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...confront,” says Menand. “I think we kind of think of ourselves as going back to the great mother document which was the Red Book.”LEARNING FROM THE EXPERTS Usually the members on education committees at Harvard are experts in their fields??anthropology, analytic philosophy, biochemistry—but not in educational philosophy. This time around, though, both of the chairs of this committee have backgrounds in philosophy and educational history.A long-time advocate for a more dynamic, experience-centered educational pedagogy, Menand has published widely on the subject...
...number of Harvard students concentrating in economics—either as their sole major or as one of two fields??totalled 764 last year, an increase of 21 percent over a half-decade...
...center of the New Yorker article are reclusive Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman and the more sociable Yau. The story opens with a full-page illustration rendering a bespectacled, white-haired, Asian man tugging at a medal labeled “Fields?? that dangles from the neck of a brown-bearded Caucasian. Below, the caption reads: “Grigory Perelman (right) says, ‘If the proof is correct, then no other recognition is need.’ Shing-Tung Yau isn’t so sure...
...choosing? LHS: Certainly whatever the president of Harvard says or does is noticed pretty widely. I think we’ve been able to do some very important things these last years by eliminating family contributions by any family with income under $80,000, by getting underway 20 football fields?? worth of laboratory space for our new sciences complex, by launching Harvard’s efforts in Allston, by breaking down some of the barriers, financial and intellectual, between Harvard’s schools. I’m proud of what I’ve been able...
...explore new fields and compare neighboring concentrations. To ensure students are prepared, students will be required to attend at least one concentration advising session at the end of their freshman year to learn about the aims and general methods of the field.Second, the Faculty has agreed to introduce secondary fields??a cluster of four to six courses in an area of inquiry that will be recognized on the student’s transcript (as language citations are now). This will allow students to pursue an interest in more than one field without writing a joint thesis. This spring...