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...might find on Thursday, but I don’t know who decides what purpose it serves.” Judith Phair, last year’s president of the world’s largest organization for public relations professionals, the Public Relations Society of America, said that modern trends in university public relations stress openness and credibility. “If all you’re doing is telling people what you want them to know, you’re not doing a complete job,” she said. “What is so important...
...themes in ways that provide students with an intellectual introduction to broad areas of knowledge and inquiry.” And as I looked at our traditional humanities offerings, with courses that include “The American Novel,” “The History of Modern Moral Philosophy,” “World Religions: Diversity and Dialogue,” “Asian Modernities,” “Opera,” and “Survey of World Art,” I realized we already have much in place that...
...Elkins’ intellectual passions come across in her teaching.“She just has boundless energy,” says Bethany L. Hoag ’06, who took Historical Studies A-21, “Africa and Africans: The Making of a Continent in the Modern World,” taught by Elkins. “I left lecture every time with my hand hurting.”In the History Department, Elkins “engages in all kinds of issues...and is not afraid to speak out on them,” says Chair Andrew...
...That sentiment is hardly new: in 1944, Dean of the Faculty Paul H. Buck solicited professors’ opinions on the Overseers’ visiting committees. As Morton and Phyllis Keller describe in their book “Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University,” Buck’s findings were far from promising: “complete indifference.... The function has sunk to so low a repute that few believe anything can be done with the device...
...While the current bicameral governance structure has on balance served Harvard well in past eras, it may not be the best structure for a modern university running a $2.6 billion budget,” says overseer Richard I. Melvoin ’73, who served on the working group. “It is not to say the structure is irretrievably broken, but rather the Overseers wanted to see whether we could improve the operations within the structure...