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...abiding power of Mother Nature, even as we burn fossil fuels at rates that put us at grave risk of irreversible climate change. And our recent pullback from an economic abyss shows us the insecurity of our global economic system, which has raised many boats but still leaves over one billion people tragically living on less than...
...wake of President Obama’s election, however, most in Congress looked backward for inspiration. Many Democrats reverted to the New Deal philosophy of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, Republicans to the tax cuts and small government philosophy of former President Ronald W. Reagan. One side took refuge in ideas that were 75 years old, the other in ideas that were 30 years old. They are both out of date. They depend on the stale and discredited argument that you must be either for big government or against it, that government is either the solution...
...citizenship means contributing to a cause larger than your own self-interest. It calls on each and every one of us to perform community service, to get involved in politics, and to join with other citizens in larger movements for change...
...citizenship calls on us to define a new catalytic and transparent role for government, one that ensures a level playing field, monitors performance, uses competition and choice, and rewards and scales up what works while recognizing and shutting down what doesn?...
...have not slowed our intellectual evolution and growth. Next academic year will launch a new undergraduate concentration, biomedical engineering, and two new secondary fields, one in ethnic studies and one in global health and health policy. These come on the heels of our very successful introduction this year of a new concentration in human developmental and regenerative biology. Our newly launched Program in General Education, which replaced the 30-year-old Core Curriculum, also continues to expand, with 331 courses already approved...