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...While the creation of any new program in a university setting is bound to lack complete clarity, certain logistical aspects need to be articulated from the start. A plan for housing is an essential aspect of J-term. Moving forward, we hope that the administration will not only guarantee housing for students wishing to remain on campus but that it will also provide more general information about the program for students who will have to plan their month accordingly...
...institutions in those states. The project, supported by the Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation for Education, will specify a consensus-based set of skills, rather than a subjective number of credits earned or courses taken, that qualify a candidate to receive a degree in a particular field. In effect, one program advocate told The New York Times, “If you’re majoring in chemistry, here is what I expect you to learn in terms of laboratory skills, theoretical knowledge, applications, the intersection of chemistry with other sciences, and broader questions of environment and forensics...
...Lumina Foundation’s new project threatens to end diversity in itself—its framers explain that educators at each individual school will retain their prerogative to design courses and curricula so long as they comply with the agreed-upon framework. Nonetheless, Lumina should question whether its program is heading in the right direction. Significant curricular differences may make decisions harder for the Class of 2013, but they would be foolish to have it any other...
...SEAS has partnered with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies' Brazil Studies Program to organize a field course for SEAS students in Brazil from January 7th to January 21st, 2010. The course will bring together professors and undergraduates from both Harvard and Brazil. The program will include both lectures and hands-on activities, and the web site says activities could include visiting the country’s largest hydroelectric dam or oil exploration and extraction sites. And don't worry if you spent too much time taking Bioengineering to dabble in Portuguese—all the activities will...
...coercion. And that is not to mention that the prisons have stigmatized the CIA with the worst abuses of the Bush White House. In any case, it is the military that should be holding and handling prisoners of war, not the CIA. (Read Inside the CIA's Secret Prisons Program...