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Student volunteers from Lesley, MIT, and Harvard have managed registration tables for the Cambridge Election Commission throughout the city in recent weeks. The Commission signed up over 400 people at Oktoberfest this weekend alone, according to volunteer Nick A. John...
When I ask Simons about winning a college tournament at Vanderbilt while still in high school, he dwells on the limited size of the field. When I ask why he neglected to tell me that he recently finished first in a scrimmage between the freshmen from MIT and Harvard, he smiles and says nothing. His Straus dorm room is a shrine to the understated...
Other universities have already been challenging this notion of exclusivity, turning to the creed of open education. In 2001, Massachusetts Institute of Technology started to make course information available online. MIT OpenCourseWare (www.ocw.mit.edu) now contains over 1,800 courses, open to all, denying only the promise of a diploma. The program became almost an instant success. OCW averages one million visits each month, hitting a record high of two million hits a month in 2007. Almost half of the site’s visitors in 2005 were self-learners, according to a report completed...
...interdisciplinary lecture. Khanna, a professor at Harvard Business School, recently completed a book entitled “Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures—and Yours.” He discussed his research for about 20 minutes and then fielded questions from MIT economics professor Abhijit Banerjee, Boston University history professor Merle Goldman, Harvard Kennedy School professor Rohini Pande, and audience members. Harvard professor Homi K. Bhabha, director of the Humanities Center, moderated the lecture. Bhabha introduced the event by pointing to the Center’s goal of addressing “both...
...benefits. More than 80 faculty members, graduate and undergraduate students, and residents of the community packed the conference room at CGIS for the panel. “American politics looks very obscure to me. This is why I want to come here,” said Stefano Versace, an MIT graduate student from Italy. “I’m very interested in it, especially at such a crucial point when there is also the economic crisis...