Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...creative person? I'm really trying to figure out which way I want to go for the next couple of years. I bought three books....I want to make sure I have some sort of personal interaction. That can be consulting, that can be on a social-work level. The thing I'm looking for is: How can I bring together my passions and interests with a job? That's what I'm exploring. I'm looking at ways to bring together my passions with potential career opportunities. For all I know I could be taking a year...
...High level University officials--like deans of individual schools--are almost always chosen from senior faculty. Without tenured minority professors, there can't be minorities in the most prominent University positions...
...quality of the academic experience, not the kinds of extracurricular activities available, not the luxuriousness of campus facilities but merely the idea of student independence. Home-schooled students already miss out on a great deal of social interaction and diversity during their middle and high school years; imagine the level of isolation PHC's environment will create. Undergraduates may learn a great deal about the liberal arts and the Western canon; they may even learn a great deal about the workings of Congress, but they will graduate without ever having lived independent of the direct and strict influence of their...
Another obvious benefit of the move would be vastly increased space for student groups--three long floors of plush offices worth of it. Small organizations like the Harvard Anim Society could take over the desks of staff assistants, medium-sized organizations like Demon Magazine the offices of mid-level coordinators and large organizations like Harvard Model Congress the space now squandered on deans. "The ballooning in the number of groups in recent years has left three out of four without office space," The Crimson reported last spring. "Others are in spaces drastically inadequate for their needs." Shift the administration...
Until a greater level of equality between men and women in the sciences is reached, we need programs to help remedy the current discrepancy. To devote special attention to a long-disregarded group is not reverse discrimination, but a correction of a pre-existing problem. The Science Alliance has tremendously improved the life of women in the sciences at Harvard, but it has only just begun to solve the problems. It must be allowed to continue, Radcliffe...