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...rare among the creative writing faculty, mainly composed of Briggs-Copeland Lecturers on English and American Literature and Language. The lecturers are only required to teach two creative writing classes and they must advise at least two creative theses, but they’re free from the research and publishing demands of their peers. However, the cushy position doesn’t last for long, a mere five years. The lack of long-term faculty means that the program has virtually no institutional memory, which hinders the possibilities for growth or reform. “We’re reluctant...
...report is not anything new. Rumors of some elusive Golden Age of Harvard academics––when professors and tutors "actually" cared about teaching, when graduate students did not need to publish-or-perish at the expense of instruction, and when learning was the rule, not the exception––have been circulating about campus since I arrived. Yet when it comes to undergraduate teaching (and cries for its improvement), things haven’t changed much in 300 years...
...winner of last year’s “Amazing Race,” on CBS, hosted a show in Sanders Theatre in which they awarded Saget honorary membership to the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. Of the event, Saget says, “I love Harvard. It was a very special night for me,” but gripes that Harvard (or perhaps, the Lampoon) did not have the money to pay for his flight to Cambridge. In the future, Saget hopes to continue...
During his college years, Franken—who would later become one of the two founding writers for Saturday Night Live—was famously rejected from the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...engross themselves in their research without some of the usual burdens of academic life. “Scholars work out at the boundaries of knowledge, take risks, break old patterns and are enabled to do so without the pressures so common in present day academia—[namely] to publish quantity rather than quality, and work for quick results,” explains Caroline W. Bynum, who chaired the committee that helped establish the Institute. With its origins in Radcliffe College, women’s studies and gender-related research still make up an important part of the work done...