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...international students, to see everyone have their parents around and going together to so many events and receptions,” Vaibhav Gujral ’07 wrote in an e-mail. Parents were invited to a debate on biotechnology and genetics by Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker and Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel. Many parents said they enjoyed interacting with the faculty. “It would be nice to have more of that,” said one parent from Rochester, N.Y. A Saturday morning “Snapshots of the Arts?...
...sure hope he’ll restart a discussion on curriculum reform, and contribute to it,” Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker, who is a member of the Committee on General Education, wrote in an e-mail, “Bok’s involvement would be a fabulous opportunity for the Harvard community...
...Pinker added that Bok’s recent book, “Our Underachieving Colleges”—which contains relevant curriculum data and information on what does and does not work in higher education—came out too late for the committee members to digest...
...Summers' star faculty hires, psychologist Steven Pinker, told the Harvard Crimson just before the resignation announcement that he feared Summers was going to become "like every other college president--just a caretaker, a fund raiser and a mouther of platitudes." Well, being verbally provocative isn't the job of Harvard's president. The job is to make a successful but fragmented university cohere intellectually and educationally. A publicly bland president who did that would be a hero...
...Harvard begins to turn its attention to selecting a new president, one of the most important considerations is what type of leadership will be best for the University. Last week, my friend and colleague Johnstone Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker was quoted worrying that after the possible departure of University President Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard might appoint a “namby-pamby” as president like every other university. I can understand Pinker’s desire to justify some of the remarks made by Summers. But having studied leadership for many years and having had the opportunity...