Word: menand
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...We’ve kind of reached the end of our road,” said General Education committee member Louis Menand, who is also the Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language. “I have heard nothing about another meeting...
What he has accomplished as president—the biggest expansion of low-income aid since the GI Bill, the Crimson Summer Academy to prepare disadvantaged high school students for college, the greatest investments in science and technology ever, recruiting extraordinary new faculty like Louis Menand and Steven Pinker, expanding study abroad, defending affirmative action, making ours a “Green Campus”—all of that is irrelevant to the one-third of professors (of one out of Harvard’s nine faculties) that voted to kick the bastard when he?...
...with greater emphasis on student-faculty contact and study abroad initiatives. He has played an important role in the hiring of some of Harvard’s newest and brightest faculty, including Tisch Professor of History Niall Ferguson, Professor of Systems Biology Eric Lander, Bass Professor of English Louis Menand, and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker. And for those who argue that the president has made himself unapproachable and inaccessible, one glance at his accomplishments shows that he has made himself and the University more accessible than has perhaps any Harvard president since the implementation...
Pinker says that Summers also played a role in helping Kirby call upon some of the most well regarded members of the faculty to take part in this reevaluation. In addition to Kirshner, Kirby also asked Professor of English Louis Menand, Pinker, Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel and Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Diana Sorensen, who co-chaired the working group on concentrations last year...
...only did I find out that Yeretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse used to work “40 hours a week” as the features editor for the McGill Daily when she was in college, and that Professor Louis Menand eschews outlines for academic writing, the conversations were, obviously, the most productive: we still have course material to discuss. Retroactive office hours are not as effective...