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Harry R. Lewis ’68 is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Harvard College Professor. He served as dean of the College from 1995-2003. This op-ed is based on his forthcoming book, “Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education” published by PublicAffairs...
...years—with Boston’s development goals, and administrators believe that they have now fashioned a relationship with the city characterized more by cooperation than contention.“I think the Allston community is open-minded and very curious,” says Chris Gordon, the chief operating officer of the Allston Development Group. “Of course they want to make sure they have a role.”Hurley says she has attended the meetings with the Allston Task Force (once characterized by its chairman as a “little local, yokel...
...most coveted scholars, like many Harvard pre-frosh, can have their pick of universities. And recruiting them can be a challenge, says History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74. Star scholars usually teach at prestigious schools already, and they already enjoy plenty of perks, he says...
...vestiges of the dissertation there,” Elkins said. She completed the book—her first—as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute during the 2003-2004 academic year.Elkins, in her fifth year in the Harvard history department, does not have tenure, according to Andrew Gordon, chair of the department. Gordon noted that “it’s probably pretty rare” for a non-tenured professor to win an award of this caliber. Geraldine Brooks, currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction...
...presented to a distinguished black male outside the Harvard Community who is “selfless, dedicated, and service oriented,” according to Tiffanye Threadcraft ’07. Past winners have included talk show host and philanthropist Montel Williams, journalist Kevin Powell, and news broadcaster Ed Gordon. Bryant delivered a fiery keynote address, punctuated by the occasional “amen” from the audience, when he said that the black community should take up the challenge of eradicating the poverty that disproportionately afflicts its population. “Life is 10 percent what life does...