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...than 7 to 1 helps as well. The number of freshman seminars has soared, Harvard is midway through an effort to expand the Faculty by 15 percent, and the ongoing curricular review aims to increase faculty-student interactions by raising the number of small classes and promoting opportunities that foster such dialogue. But most of the curricular review has focused on sexier issues like general education. The future of the Core Curriculum is admittedly important, but expending so much breath on the structure of the literature requirement misses the true problem with a Harvard College education.Which is a shame because...
...Princeton University, when Caroline M. Elkins informed her parents that she would be majoring in African history, they were “a bit horrified.” A professorship at Harvard and a Pulitzer later, the Elkins are probably glad their daughter did not major in economics.But the Foster associate professor of African studies has never been one to back down from pursuing her goals.INTO AFRICAIn just one year as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Elkins wrote, edited, and published a nearly 500-page tome entitled “Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story...
Quincy: Jennifer S.S. Balakrishnan, Jonathan A. Blazek, David C. Foster, Lauren A. Horowitz, Christopher M. Re, Jessica R. Rubin-Wills, Ariane I. Tschumi...
...hope to start a program that brings together our international students who are interested in contributing to the development of their countries through a career in public service. I see tremendous promise in the international students we admit, and I’d like to find a way to foster their skills and their commitment while they are here with us,” Worth says.Burrows says that Worth’s vision “lends the missing human touch of building trust and true connection to the institutional and academic expertise of the University...
Unionization is expected to lead to collective bargaining. Will the foster parents strike? Probably not--less than 3% of labor talks end in strikes. Plus, says Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary who is a public-policy professor at Berkeley, "when they agreed to take on foster kids, they took on a moral obligation to parent them well...