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...Presidents’ Day and Columbus Day) untainted by our delight in a day off from work. I relished sleeping in yesterday, but I would have relished it more if I hadn’t known that in my hometown there was a parade I ought to be attending...
...tenure review committee should vigorously explore ways to make the hiring process more standardized, transparent, and open to junior faculty. But the committee should not allow that worthwhile mandate to limit its scope. Today, only about 9 percent of Harvard’s tenured professors are minorities. The committee ought to explore whether Harvard’s tenure process has inhibited it from diversifying its Faculty. There are several plausible alternative explanations for the dearth of people of color in the University’s Faculty, including the fact that graduate-level research opportunities for minorities have been restricted...
...mayor ought to remember that when the 15-ton bronze scuplture was toppled and carried off in August 1991—during a three-day coup that heralded the final demise of the Soviet Union—grateful bystanders whistled, cheered and applauded. As Princeton University professor Kathryn Stoner-Weiss observed last month in a Los Angeles Times op-ed, “The fall of Iron Felix was a bold declaration that KGB repression would have no role in Russia’s democratic future...
...think what needs to be examined most is the Core curriculum,” says Williams Professor of History and Political Science Roderick MacFarquhar. There have been enough suggestions that maybe the Core isn’t the right way to impart the basic solid education that Harvard College ought to give its students...
...facilitate truly revolutionary change, the task forces should examine how Harvard ought to pursue its educational goals in three broad areas of study: natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. These task forces must take a holistic approach, looking both at the critical bodies of knowledge to be imparted and the methods used to to teach them. The committees should focus on the path that students take in pursuing these fields, from enrollment to graduation and beyond. It is imperative that the underlying justifications for such conventions as the concentration system, the tutorial program, Expository Writing, and the efficacy of sections...