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...problem: year after year, more women at the University were reporting incidents of sexual harassment.Just months after the administration drafted a new policy that outlined procedures for reporting incidents of sexual misconduct, the University publicized for the first time that it would “reprimand” Government Professor Martin L. Kilson for allegedly attempting to kiss a freshman woman during his office hours.Over the next four years, the Kilson case would open a pandora’s box. Two other incidents involving faculty members and students made headlines on a campus that had, up until that point, been...
...What’s blown me away is how many people have signed up,” said Nitin Nohria, a Business School professor who co-authored a 2008 article proposing a business code of ethics. “When [Anderson] first proposed the idea, I said if 100 people sign up before graduation that would be great...
...passed through the Dexter Gate four years ago “to grow in wisdom” would not have recognized those of us who depart today “to better serve [our] kind.” And more than any specific concentration or class, paper or professor, there is one lesson at the core of our transformation. As obvious as it sounds, Harvard has taught us to succeed. There is no need revisit the impossible odds associated with gaining admission to this college—such fortune should humble us. We have been taught by a Faculty chosen...
...claiming it essentially fails to increase students’ productivity and reviving the theory that we use our degrees to merely “signal” skills or ability to employers, with actual learning taking place on the job. It was therefore reassuring to talk to an experienced professor recently who told me about his first experience of teaching a freshman seminar. Prior to teaching freshmen, he only worked with upperclassmen and his new teaching assignment allowed him to realize one thing. Apparently, we may be more enthusiastic as freshman, but our thinking and writing leaves...
...labored doesn’t make it into textbooks, I can live with that. It’s what happens along the way that radically enriches us. The wrestling with mystery, not the ascension to resolution, defines who we are. Brian Greene ’84, a physics professor at Columbia University, is the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos. This piece originally appeared in Wired...