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...founded a nonprofit organization, Aina Arts, which promotes local art forms in “marginalized communities,” currently both in Zimbabwe and in India.Aina’s workshops in Mussoorie, India, where the program links local artists with schools, inspired a similar project here at Harvard, according to Doris Sommer, who is Williams professor of Romance languages and literatures and director of Harvard’s Cultural Agents Initiative. Sommer’s program collaborates with the Boston Public Schools to integrate art forms into education.At Harvard, Bakshi began to see arts as a medium...
...think this is a huge step,” Lamont says. “The fact that a parallel study will be conducted and that there is a structure to do it is humongous.” If data collection sounds less than revolutionary, those involved in the project say it is essential to bringing Harvard up to speed with peer institutions.“Data can sound very dry, but actually they can be the center of any effort for change,” Mansbridge says.—Staff writer Natalie I. Sherman can be reached at nsherman@fas.harvard.edu...
...right direction. Today, we need to be integrating knowledge, not fragmenting it. Vartan Gregorian, the former president of Brown University, has termed the project “the reconstruction of the unity of knowledge” in a coruscating 2004 essay. He writes, “[T]he complexity of the world requires us to have a better understanding of the relationships and connections between all fields.” A society more fragmented than today’s, Gregorian argues, has more of a dependence on experts and more of a temptation to eschew judgment in favor of accepted...
...January issue of Institutional Investor magazine. In 18,000 words, the spellbinding narrative detailed the University’s effort to reform the Russian economy in the 1990s—and the fraud scandal that resulted. The U.S. Department of Justice alleged that University employees who steered the project violated their federal contracts by making personal investments in the Russian economy, and Harvard paid $26.5 million to settle a government lawsuit.University President Lawrence H. Summers said in a March interview that he “skimmed” McClintick’s piece. But many professors read it closely?...
...members of The Harvard Advocate certainly knew how to party as well. The third was composed of Horace Reynolds, the translator, George Palmer, the poet who published under the name of George Anthony, Gunther Neufeld, an art critic from Germany, George Burroughs, once the head of the WPA Writers Project in Hawaii who had become a Harvard policeman, Jennie Tutin, the widow of a former bookseller, and Edith, the original founder of what became the Starr bookstore...