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Zeckhauser led 34 Kennedy School faculty members, including then-dean Joseph S. Nye, in a 2002 letter-writing campaign to persuade the Chinese government to release Yang. Similar efforts were undertaken by both the U.S. Congress and the State Department, but Zeckhauser said “the Chinese government was basically very unresponsive...
...encourages the pursuit of “veritas,” Harvard’s Faculty should liberalize the pass-fail option by mandating concentration credit policy for pass-fail courses in all departments. Departments should accept any relevant courses for concentration credit—whether those courses are letter-graded or not—with the exception of foundational or introductory courses. Right now, the risk-taking it was meant to encourage remains limited purely to students’ electives, and has little impact on our serious academic pursuits, which all count towards the tyrannical...
Since 1969, Brown University’s New Curriculum has fostered the kind of academic freedom Professor Riesman and others had hoped for at Harvard. Brown allows students to have courses letter-graded or non-letter graded, with a Satisfactory/No Credit option. Through this open curriculum, Brown aims to prioritize “intellectual growth rather than the static transmission of knowledge”—essentially, a broad and curious academic perspective. Admittedly, Brown’s intellectual ethos is historically very different from Harvard’s, but we could nonetheless learn from its exploration-focused, open...
...book has some other surprises: it is in many ways an unabashed love letter to the CIA. Officers are praised for their wisdom and energy at every turn; even in the agency's worst moments - as when it failed to sufficiently alert the FBI about two 9/11 hijackers in the country in 2001 - Tenet is unable to find much fault with his troops...
...SLAM’s letter urged Bok to intervene on behalf of Harvard’s security guards, labelling the situation a “human rights crisis.” The letter demanded that the University guarantee five standards in the worker’s contracts: fair wages, steady full-time work, a safe and sanitary workplace, fair procedures, and the right to organize...