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...already have to fight with graduate students to broaden their education—[this proposal] could be a total slippery slope,” Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser said at a CUE meeting last month...
...Part wishful thinking and part genuine expectation, the anticipated diversification of the Faculty is somewhat substantiated by recent progress. “There’s been much greater sensitivity in hiring people who have not been represented,” says Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser...
...Years ago, a person was considered an intellectual if they were educated in literature, if they could, say, quote The Canterbury Tales. That’s no longer the case,” Hauser argues. “To be an intellectual and be ignorant to science is no longer valid,” he says. Summers, who has repeatedly complained that Harvard students think it is “fine to not know the difference between a gene and a chromosome,” certainly agrees. Hauser is optimistic about solving this problem. Between teachers like Stephen Jay Gould...
...just what kinds of people will be here but what new intellectual fields will develop,” Skocpol says. Many professors and administrators have pointed to the current trend of interaction between different departments and fields as something that will continue—and at a rapid pace. Hauser mentions the already phenomenal growth of the mind sciences and predicts the future partnership of the mind and applied sciences. Programs like Mind, Brain and Behavior are already beginning to forge alliances with unlikely allies such as the religion department...
...study of literature and that of the Christian religion, Kiely extols the virtues of studying a little bit of everything. “The student who comes here hoping just to do economics or engineering is not making the most out of Harvard,” he says. Hauser seconds that thought emphatically. “We need to guard against narrow education,” he says. He pauses. “Seeing as Harvard is not MIT,” he adds...