Word: publishers
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...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...
...indicative of a larger problem that has little to do with the Coop, or even the UC. The problem is that professors are not taking simple steps to make it easy for their students to obtain course books at low cost. The solution is almost too obvious: professors should publish the ISBN numbers of course-required texts in syllabi and course-wide emails in order to facilitate easy ordering by students. This is not an unreasonable request, given that professors submit their reading lists to the Coop several weeks before the semester begins. Additionally, professors ought to design the first...