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...letters and e-mails from faculty, students and alumni, with a combination of advice and critique designed to help our curricular review. We have read them with care, and they have informed our creation of four committees of faculty and students—think of them as study groups??on general education, concentrations, teaching and the overall educational experience in Harvard College. From the responses we have received, one area of consensus (among others) is that we should “internationalize” a Harvard education...
...within the bubble of diversity that Harvard has created here, many students have not fully embraced the carefully-constructed opportunity to gain real understanding from those different from themselves through friendships and close interaction. It can be seen in the dining halls, in blocking groups and, notably, in extracurricular groups??the largest sphere of group interaction at Harvard. While it is certainly not the rule, race is often a powerful factor in determining the friendships, social interactions and extracurricular pursuits of students here...
Among the students who have remained in the system, there remain vast discrepancies in academic performance between tax brackets and racial groups??the so-called “achievement...
...Lurie says he was troubled by the constitutions of only two groups??the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) and the Asian Baptist Student Koinonia (ABSK)—which have strict eligibility requirements for leadership positions...
...that’s precisely the problem. We’re only expected to parrot back the basic arguments and corresponding authors that have been drummed into our heads during lectures. Doing the reading isn’t even necessary to ace midterms; omnipresent “study groups?? give students a concise summary of authors and their ideas to sprinkle throughout an essay. I have never once envied the teaching fellows who grade these midterms; to read the same arguments in blue book after blue book must be one of the most agonizing forms of intellectual torture...