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...teaching fellow Bruce D. Watson and Preceptor in Mathematics John D. Boller. With a constant turnover of lecturers (and their teaching acumen), lecturers in charge of Courses in General Education would be little more than glorified head teaching fellows and would never have the time or incentive to fully invest themselves in the creation and improvement of a course. If Harvard College is to offer the best introductory courses in the world, this misguided policy should be changed.The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) administration defends the eight-year limit for two reasons. First, it prevents Harvard from exploiting post...
University President Lawrence H. Summers suggested on his India trip that developing nations should invest their capital reserves more aggressively, and proposed the formation of an international fund to manage those investments.Emerging markets like India and China are amassing significant reserves, but by holding onto their funds rather than investing in global markets are missing out on potential gains, the former Treasury secretary said in remarks prepared for delivery at the Reserve Bank of India in Mumbai on Friday, March 24.The return on investment could be substantial, Summers said, noting that over the last decade, the average university endowment...
...programmable thermostat. It will save you about 1,800 lbs. of CO2 annually. Invest in energy-efficient appliances. (Ones with the EPA?s EnergyStar label are a good bet.) Replacing a 20-year-old refrigerator with a high-efficiency model can lower CO2 emissions by 1 ton per year. A new washing machine that uses less water and less energy can cut emissions...
...College must begin assigning incoming freshmen to Houses before they arrive at Harvard. Presently, at the start of their first year, freshmen are welcomed to their entryways by proctors and prefects. As soon as the year gets underway, however, freshmen must choose whether or not they will invest themselves in the ready-made communities in their entryways, or instead spend their time with friends from classes and extracurricular activities. Because the entryway unit has a predetermined lifespan of exactly one academic year, there is very little incentive for a student to take time away from other commitments to attend study...
...political groups like the Undergraduate Council (UC), the Institute of Politics, the Dems and others would have trouble mimicking the appeal of single-race or single-gender groups, they would do well to look to examples of initiatives that have successfully drawn students who generally avoid political groups to invest in their cause. The Student Labor Action Movement, for instance, has rallied members of groups who have been traditionally under-represented in political organizations; groups focusing on AIDS, prison reform, poverty, housing policy, and divestment from Sudan have achieved similar results by taking direct action on political issues...