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...first five years the institution isinvesting in the dean, and the payoff is notimmediate because there are a lot of things tolearn," says Associate Dean for Academic PlanningPhyllis Keller, one of Spence's chief assistants."And he has set out to learn them all, trying toeducate himself about what the needs of theCollege are, really to the end of the century...
Survey courses like History 1a and its spring counterpart History 1b, were once a staple of college curriculums but fell out of favor in the late 1960s. In recent years however, many educators have criticized American college for failing to ensure that students learn the basics of Western civilization...
...even more than placing trust in foreign universities, Harvard should learn to trust its own students to make time spent abroad productive. Right now study abroad credit can be torturous to arrange; in too many cases the University seems skeptical that undergraduates can motivate themselves to learn anything of value when allowed beyond the confines of the Square...
...reader's attention is to start off with a bang. This book does so. Chapter 1, first sentence: "The most perilous work in America is the harvest by hand of sugarcane in South Florida." Holy mackerel, stop the presses! A lot of coal miners will certainly be relieved to learn this, not to mention scads of military test pilots. And just how perilous is this work, which is principally performed by laborers brought in from the Caribbean? An answer is tucked in at the end of a paragraph 245 pages later: "As far as I know a West Indian...
Foreign service professionals have loudly criticized their boss for freezing them out and surrounding himself with longtime aides. "He's running a mini- NSC, not State," complained a senior diplomat. "We learn what our policy is when we read it in the newspapers...