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...Resolution Sought in Mass. Hall Standoff” quoted a protester on then-University President Rudenstine: “He only agrees to meet with us to perpetuate the impression that he’s listening.” This year, Duke University took the Internet public relations model to another level. In the wake of the lacrosse scandal, the university set up a web page, linked off of duke.edu, that carries official statements about the alleged rape of a local woman by three undergraduate lacrosse players as well as links to often-unflattering news and opinion articles...
...imply that learning is a duty, it strikes me as somewhat telling that he chose to articulate it so sternly as a “business.” Is it a good thing that Harvard is mixing business with pleasure, leisure, and lecture? And can this new corporate model of a university actually teach us to be “citizens of the world?” The tension between the University’s aim of producing global citizens and the prevalent trends of commercialization and professionalism has been a defining aspect of my education here. Readers...
...creation of SEAS within a national context. Today, most of American higher education favors specialization, not generalization. Whereas in 1970 more than half of baccalaureate degrees were awarded in a liberal arts discipline, by 1995 that number had declined to nearly 40 percent. This suggests that the liberal arts model in America is in decline, and the creation of SEAS is ominous when seen in this context. It is a step, however small, in that direction...
...productive child that avoids her peers. (This may hint at the rationale for the current cosmetic change.) The reasons are varied and many, and I’d rather not appraise a field’s essence for rebellious idiosyncrasies. But both the recent decline of the liberal arts model, as well as the field’s history of self-fragmentation, suggest that the creation of SEAS is a step in the wrong direction...
...five times that amount. After Kremer and Boaz heard of the the Ansari X Prize—a $10 million competition to launch a piloted spacecraft into space twice within two weeks in 2004—Kremer said they decided to create a company based on the same business model.“One of the big problems with ALS is that there are not a lot of novel treatment ideas coming from new places,” said Boaz.With the help of Daniel J. Isenberg, a senior lecturer who taught Kremer in his entrepreneurial course, Boaz and Kremer founded...