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...that earns tenure, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies James Russell is a curious person to lead the charge for general education.Nonetheless, in a two-semester survey of “Literature Humanities,” Russell has carved out a place in the battery of freshmen seminars (usually a portal to Harvard at its most myopic) to provide a semblance of well-rounded, broad education to eager newcomers.It has long been supposed that no one—neither professors nor students—wants to be troubled by the dead white men who comprise most of any Great Books curriculum...
Formfitting Inventor: Rikiya Fukuda Availability: Prototype only To Learn More: snipurl.com/jp3h (Japanese only) A door that fits like a glove? This one does. Fukuda's Automatic Door, designed in Japan, opens just enough to match the shape of the person or object passing through. The nifty motion-detecting portal saves energy by keeping a door from having to repeatedly open all the way. That helps maintain a stable temperature in a room and can prevent dirt and other materials from being swept inside. In addition to people, the new system can be used for small objects, like packages dropped...
...their concentration, will be complemented by effort on behalf of departments to make some of their content-heavy courses more accessible to those outside of the concentration. Second, the committee also envisions a robust array of “Courses in General Education”—yearlong portal courses that would cover a swath of subject matter in an interdisciplinary way.Both of these proposals stand to make Harvard students better educated. Though students can still get away with fulfilling their “Study of Societies” requirement with three very specific courses, it is likely that...
...midst of the Harvard College Curricular Review, when the entirety of the undergraduate experience is under the microscope, an overhauled CUE Guide can be an invaluable tool to evaluate everything from the proposed portal courses to any improvement in undergraduate advising. The CUE should combine the flexibility of a web-based survey with new, more probing questions and an expanded grading scale to achieve the survey’s true potential...
...already built the technological infrastructure for such an undertaking. The UC should leave this project to my.harvard, the platform that was designed to serve as the all-College homepage. The UC’s website is not and should not be envisioned as a type of all-College portal. Instead, the website should function as an efficient and uncomplicated instrument of outreach for the UC’s most mission-critical tasks. Anything more would be excessive and go largely unused. Toward this goal, an improved and functional UC webpage merely requires an improved voting system, simplified and easier...