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...immorality, though in our experience nearly every member of this community aspires to create the former. This incident is hardly paradigmatic, but is instead indicative of the human flaws that plague even those who seem to have it all.In no way have we enjoyed witnessing the fall of our peer, nor do we intend to lessen the seriousness of her transgression by pointing to the improprieties of others. What she did was wrong; we are, quite simply, disappointed...
While most of Harvard’s peer institutions have labeled their junior professorships as tenure-track for years, Harvard had long forbidden the practice...
...pathways for peer collaboration have not just been coming from the administration. A number of student-generated initiatives also offer opportunities for students and student groups to learn from each other and grow in ways that a top-down approach from the administration might not have achieved...
...administration initiatives offer promising potential for peer learning and collaboration, both at the student and student group level. First off, the new peer advising fellowships, a dramatically restructured, advising-centric reincarnation of the Freshmen Prefect Program, will offer freshmen advice from upperclassmen who have recently navigated the first years of the Harvard undergraduate curriculum themselves...
Oftentimes, our complaints about Harvard are problems that are well within our ability to change, and the accumulated wisdom that grows from stronger peer advising and more frequent extracurricular collaboration might be enough to do just that. The lessons Harvard students can learn from these kinds of collaborations, both on a personal and group level, can extend far beyond the confines of course selection or meeting scheduling. By seeing other students as peers rather than competitors and other groups as allies rather than opponents, we can grow as individuals and as organizations and learn skills and values that will serve...