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...United States has the highest adolescent pregnancy rate in the developed world,” proclaims the film’s opening line. Susan Wilkins, the reading’s moderator and board member of the Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy, said Lipper’s film and book would make this issue more recognized and accessible to the public...
...distressed letter of response to University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, expressing their concerns about the precipitous slide in tenure offers. This fall, 73 female senior faculty members agreed to sign a statement urging the administration “to assign its highest priority to reversing the downward trend of the past three years in FAS senior offers to women.” Summers and Kirby agreed to meet with 50 female senior faculty members on October 6 in the Barker Center. Both expressed concern about the drop in offers, but many women...
Much of the resulting buzz has been about the problems that women on the path to promotion must always confront. Though women now have more chances to advance into the faculty’s highest echelon, that promise is obscured by latent discrimination and by every professional woman’s dilemma—balancing kids and a career...
...lecture-style courses with a general academic dissatisfaction. He writes, “Most of the time smaller is better, with stronger student engagement.” And if we check with the almighty course bible of the undergraduate body, the CUE Guide, we see that the many of highest ratings do come from the small, interactive classes—the English department’s ten-person “Playwriting Workshop,” for example, scored a 5.0 last year...
...best, surveys are imprecise guides for estimating opinions, and we see numerous factors which may have inflated student responses, providing HUDS with an inaccurate assessment. First, we see a strong likelihood of sample bias. The survey, which was conducted online in mid-October, received its highest response rate from Quincy House, with 59.8 percent of student residents participating. And, while Quincy residents should certainly be applauded for their high voter turnout, there’s good reason to believe it wasn’t Quincy’s delectable victuals that inspired such survey enthusiasm. More likely, the House?...