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Former Harvard lecturer in sociology Barrington Moore, Jr., whose study of power structures—and particularly totalitarianism—helped shape the field for decades to follow, died on Sunday, Oct. 16, at his home in Cambridge. He was 92. Moore, who was born and raised in Newport, R.I...
The two Harvard professors who founded Partners in Health join notable names like Bill Gates, Class of 1977, and Oprah Winfrey on a list of “America’s Best Leaders” compiled by the Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at the Kennedy School of Government...
But the three Faculty members who responded to the report at yesterday’s full meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) disapproved of the recommendations, arguing that secondary fields ignore the intellectual benefits and selectivity of joint concentrations and that caps on concentration requirements disregard programs?...
Feldman said secondary fields are an inferior option because though they appear on the transcript, they are absent on the diploma. He also said some secondary field studies will actually require students to take more courses than joint concentrations, citing the concentration combination of Physics with Mathematics or Astronomy.
English and American Literature and Language Department Chair James Engell also opposed switching to concentration caps and secondary fields on similar grounds.