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...grade inflation controversy landed on her desk. Pedersen handled the pressure well, calling for a comprehensive review from each department of their grading practices. And though she made the mistake of ending the policy of awarding honors in general studies, at the same time, Pedersen pioneered a framework for constructive dialog on grade inflation across disciplines...
Currently, an ad-hoc Committee on Ethnic Studies, headed by Professor of Afro-American Studies Werner Sollors, tries to help interested students find relevant courses and advisers. Though the committee’s website lists courses that fall under the ethnic studies rubric, it is a weak framework into which students with a wide variety of passions are corralled. Supporters of ethnic studies have rightfully continued to push the University to establish at least a certificate program and hope to establish fully independent departments for various ethnicities someday...
...prisoner-related issues to becoming a broader human-rights organization that takes into account the challenges of the 21st century in this area. With economic globalization there is at the same time a need for a globalization of human rights, a global values system. Human rights provides that framework...
Point’s greatest accomplishment is that it defies easy categorization. Cornelius’ unaffected approach to his music lets him stand in a privileged position outside genre boundaries, free to grab whatever suits him, looping and tweaking it to fit into his grand framework of sound. The result is catchy yet structureless, informed by decades of pop music but empowered by technology: Post-pop, perhaps? Until his imitators inevitably arrive, Cornelius will remain a fascinating, utterly original figure. Rating...
...order to keep Harvard’s wages fair, Summers must actively follow up and reassess wages often within the collective bargaining framework. But when wages rise, that increase must not be used as an excuse to lay off workers, even if the economy is struggling through a recession...