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...General Education Standing Committee approved six classes in their last meeting of the year, bringing the total number of Gen Ed courses to 45. Sixteen of these classes will be taught in Fall 2008, and 20 will be taught in Spring 2009. Gen Ed committee chair Jay M. Harris said that he’s hoping for 64 Gen Ed classes to be taught per semester by 2010. Social Analysis 10: “Principles of Economics,” whose proposal the Economics Department submitted last February, has yet to be approved for Gen Ed credit. But two introductory...
...donate’ their eggs for an average compensation of about $5,000—while Harvard women may be able to land 10 times that amount. California Cryobank, a sperm repository in Cambridge, pays approximately $75 for each sperm donation by Harvard males who meet specific requirements. Governments decide which parts of our bodies are saleable, and they are in the business of drawing lines. Unfortunately, these lines are sketching quite a blurry picture of the control we possess over our own bodies. Americans can sell their eggs, sperm, blood, hair and souls, but their organs...
...Core Program, ironically enough, bears part of the blame. The Core is supposed to encourage students to take classes from areas outside their concentration. But because most of the classes that meet its requirements are the designated “Core classes,” classified under the Core Curriculum rather than a particular department, most students stay confined to a tiny selection of classes. Of the 1500 classes listed in the Courses of Instruction, only 103 departmental classes count toward the Core, a disproportionate number of which are science or quantitative reasoning...
...would have students from a real variety of concentrations. Much lip service has been paid to this idea by the Gen Ed Task Force, but improvements have remained laughable. It still makes the front page of this newspaper when the Gen Ed Standing Committee approves another six classes to meet its requirements. If any substantial change is going to happen, that number needs to be in the high hundreds...
...Narayanamurti, outgoing dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), was dean of engineering at the University of California-Santa Barbara, he started getting frantic calls from a man named Jeremy Knowles.Knowles, then dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, then flew to California to meet Venky and get his advice about the new Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences.“When he went back to Harvard, I started getting more calls saying, ‘Come to Harvard and meet the president,’” Venky said in an interview last...